From: Matteo Croce <rootkit85@yahoo.it>
To: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: airo
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:27:32 +0200
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On Monday 25 June 2007 16:38:26 you wrote:
> It looks like some other network interface gets renamed from "eth0" to
> "eth1" at the same time the airo driver is initializing the card. Does
> it happen always after booting? Do you have other network interfaces?
> This patch should fix it. Can you test it?

Exactly, the boot process goes so:
1) udev loads forcedeth.ko and it gets eth0
2) udev also loads airo.ko
3) forcedeth loads very fast and udev renames it to eth1 according to /etc/iftab
4) airo slowly init the card and try to get eth1 as name, but found it busy and die()

Personally I solved this by deleting forcedeth.ko. I know that it's ugly, but I don't use wired etherned
and i hate do "rmmod airo ; modprobe airo" at every boot, also in a shell script.

Cheers,
Matteo