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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:05:58 +0200
From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
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To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: iwl4965 detection problem
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Dan Williams wrote:
> I've had this same problem with one machine and there were problems with
> those two files.  I fixed it on that machine (and was fixed on a few
> others using this procedure) by removing those two files and rebooting.
> 
> The symptom is that the driver loads and recognizes the card, but no
> wireless devices show up to userspace (via iwconfig, ifconfig, or
> in /sys/class/net) because device renames by udev and/or init scripts
> stomped over them (like trying to rename wmaster0 -> eth1 and then
> renaming wlan0 -> eth1 but failing because it was already taken).
> 
> Try killing those two files, making sure you're up to date, then
> restarting.

Hi Dan,

I tried that, but no go :-( Even before the card was detected by Fedora,
when I manually loaded the iwl4965 module, nothing showed up in
ifconfig -a, I had to unload/reload for anything to happen.

Cheers,
Jes