Re: iwl4965 detection problem

[Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> I've had this same problem with one machine and there were problems with
> those two files.  I fixed it on that machine (and was fixed on a few
> others using this procedure) by removing those two files and rebooting.
> 
> The symptom is that the driver loads and recognizes the card, but no
> wireless devices show up to userspace (via iwconfig, ifconfig, or
> in /sys/class/net) because device renames by udev and/or init scripts
> stomped over them (like trying to rename wmaster0 -> eth1 and then
> renaming wlan0 -> eth1 but failing because it was already taken).
> 
> Try killing those two files, making sure you're up to date, then
> restarting.

Hi Dan,

I tried that, but no go :-( Even before the card was detected by Fedora,
when I manually loaded the iwl4965 module, nothing showed up in
ifconfig -a, I had to unload/reload for anything to happen.

Cheers,
Jes