Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-29T23:22:58Z

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@gmx.de> wrote:
[...]
> >
> > Btw, when booting the system with the b43 driver, I get a
> > ~30 socond delay after the boot scripts report
> > "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" and all the modules
> > get loaded. Is this something expected?
>
> That is most likely udev related, which doesn't really like module names
> and default interface names changing for a known MAC address, depending on
> your distribution (the following example assumes debian sid, udev 0.114-2)
> you might have something like /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
> (which lists MAC addresses and the associated persistent interface name),
> removing the corresponding stanza for your Broadcom wireless card (or
> removing the whole file alltogether and letting udev (or rather
> z45_persistent-net-generator.rules) recreate it during the next boot will
> most likely fix it.
>
> This issue is in no way b43 related, it happens with "every" networking
> devices with changing module names (at least for every legacy wireless
> module being replaced by a new mac80211 based driver).

Removing the file helped. Thanks.

>
> Regards
> Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
>