Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

[Alexey Zaytsev]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@xxxxxx> 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
>
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