ipw2200 not always probing properly

[tox_yray]

Hi,

Occasionally, my ipw2200 driver loads as an Ethernet device. All I do to fix this is restart the driver (modprobe -r ipw2200 followed by modprobe ipw2200). It seals the deal.

However, I would like to fix the problem permanently (you know, not having to modprobe all over again). Anyone has a clue on how to fix this?

Thanks for any input,
Bruno M-A.

[Iron_Mike]

In some previous versions of FC, like 5 and below there were some issues about eth0 and eth1 being randomly assigned., also there was an issues with the wireless device being assigned an dev:122995857 name when viewed with the system-config-network application. I have not seen this since FC6 final. But one thing you can make sure is included in your /etc/modprobe.conf files are these 2 line:

alias eth0 r8169 <--This is your ethernet nic, you will have to put your NIC's name
alias eth1 ipw2200