[Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

[Jerry Vonau]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:12 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> It was, however, something a lot more mundane.
> 
> This test machine is a laptop, and sports its own wifi gear
> (centrino). Our device naming scheme for the pair of devices that the
> Libertas appears as is wlanN/mshN. However, the built-in card took
> over wlan0 and so the AA was wlan1/msh0. And some things would still
> talk to wlan0 as if it were a libertas.
> 
> The trivial local workaround: blacklist the iwlagn driver so the
> machine forgets about it's internal card. 

Or you could edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and rename
the offending device to be something else, and rename/edit the ifcfg-
file to match the new device name.

Jerry