Bugzilla Bug 209513

I get the following error at boot (and also I get a 20 secs delay) when udev
loads iwl3945 module:
"UDEV: Your system is having problems assigning persistent names" 

After that, I don't have eth1 interface, only "wlan0_rename" (that doesn't work
also for me, but this seems a different problem)

Thanks a lot

Reproducible: Always

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199512 ***

I have tried removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and running
udevtrigger, I don't suffer now the delay, but the error is still being shown

I attach the new created rule (that doesn't also work)

Created an attachment (id=143117) [details]
70-persistent-net.rules.iwl

Which driver are you using?

iwl3945, from iwlwifi (I am trying to use it instead of old ipw3945)

removing the old udev rules for ipw3945 in
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules worked for me.

in your case remove both iwl entries from the file.

hth

I had the same problem with stable udev and bc43 wifi after I upgraded to
2.6.24. I found out that the problem was mainly the necessity to get another
(newer) version of firmware for b43, not only the rules. Maybe this should be
mentioned somewhere too.

(In reply to comment #7)
> I had the same problem with stable udev and bc43 wifi after I upgraded to
> 2.6.24. I found out that the problem was mainly the necessity to get another
> (newer) version of firmware for b43, not only the rules. Maybe this should be
> mentioned somewhere too.
> 
I've just solved this probem on my laptop (I think works for iwl3945 too), you
have to del previous line in 70-persistent-net.rules.iwl for your old BCM43xx
drivers, so udev will write correct line for you at next boot. I remember you
the new driver works different from previous, also works fine!
This is mine, created at boot by udev:

# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4320 (b43-pci-bridge)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:90:4b:9e:f4:b0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*",
NAME="wlan0"

This seems to be a common problem when updating from ipw3945 to iwlwifi:
http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi#head-c9ab967d827d9e5de52656b78edab5f349bc70f6

but I am not sure if there would be an "automagic" way for removing all lines
automatically... :-/

Created an attachment (id=181149) [details]
fix-persistent-net.pl

Ubuntu is running this script for adding ADDR{type}=="1" to
70-persistent-net.rules when possible as can be read in its changelog:



This bug was fixed in the package udev - 117-6

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udev (117-6) hardy; urgency=low

  * Automatically add ADDR{type}=="1" to 70-persistent-net.rules rules
    where we can or at least add a useful comment where the user has written
    their own rule that's broken in the same way. LP: #183968.
  * Automatically comment out rules from 70-persistent-net.rules that would
    match any device.

 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:49:41 +0100

But I cannot test as I no longer have old rules :-/