Ubuntu Breezy + Wireless Interfaces

[Jared Anderson]

Kevin wrote:

>Just finished the upgrade from 5.04 (Hoary) to 5.10 (Breezy) with no
>incidents on my IBM Thinkpad T40 laptop.  However, I just noticed the
>built-in Cisco Aironet wireless interface (uses the airo module) is
>behaving strangely.
>
>Of course, the airo module creates two virtual interfaces.  One for
>normal wireless use and one for wireless "monitor" mode (sniffing).
>
>On Ubuntu-5.04 the module always mapped liked this:
> - eth0 (e1000 module) wired ethernet
> - eth1 (airo module) NORMAL WIRELESS interface
> - wlan0 (airo module) wireless monitor interface
>
>On Ubuntu-5.10 it's behaving differently.  At boot up the module maps
>like this:
> - eth0 (e1000 module) wired ethernet
> - eth1 (airo module) NORMAL WIRELESS interface
> - eth3 (airo module) wireless monitor interface
>
>Even worse, if I `rmmod airo` and later `modprobe airo` the mappings
>change to this:
> - eth0 (e1000 module) wired ethernet
> - eth1 (airo module) wireless monitor interface
> - eth2 (airo module) NORMAL WIRELESS interface
>
>Argh!  This is causing problems with my handy location scripts when the
>interface names keep changing!  How can I pin this down?
>
>...Kevin
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