Bug 144138

Summary:	Issues with OvisLink PCMCIA WLAN card
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	persistant rules file YaST2 logs

Description Michael Stather 2006-01-19 17:11:57 UTC

Here´s the next card in my series of hardware tests *g
OvisLink AirLive PCMCIA with PrismGT chipset.
The card works but there are some issues, though.

1. The card is detected as a wireless one but the network interface is named eth1. It should be e.g. wlan0 IMHO. I attached the YaST logs and the "persistant rules" file of udev

2. The card is not seen as a PCMCIA one (perhaps this is also related to the problem above). When I go to the "hardware details" in the network module the "PCMCIA" checkbox isn´t checked. I already reported this for USB devices, but it worked "magically" after some restarts. With this card I´m definitely sure.

Comment 1 Michael Stather 2006-01-19 17:12:37 UTC

Created attachment 64060 [details]
persistant rules file

Comment 2 Michael Stather 2006-01-19 17:20:52 UTC

Created attachment 64065 [details]
YaST2 logs

Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2006-01-20 12:17:34 UTC

There is no general rule how WLAN interface are named. If you do not like the default name, you can alter it by changing it in the rules file you attached.

Your card is most probably a cardbus one. These show up as PCI device, not as PCMCIA ones, therefore the PCMCIA checkbox is unchecked.

Comment 4 Michael Stather 2006-01-20 13:23:07 UTC

The card is a cardbus one, that´s right.
But my other WLAN card is named wlan0, so if "there´s no general rule" I don´t understand why it´s named like that. What about adding a rule which forces all WLAN cards to be named as as wlanX, not just USB ones?

Comment 5 Christian Zoz 2006-01-20 13:34:02 UTC

The name in the rule depends on the driver. Therefore it might be eth or wlan or sometime ath. The name does not matter at all. Change it if you don't like it.