two NICs listed as eth0??? wh00t?

[Pundit]

Well, my quest continues! Really motivated to migrate for good, but having some startup problems still...

I managed to install the ipw2100 driver properly, and modprobe works beatyfully! Problem is both iwconfig and ifconfig lists its cards as eth0. And my wlan is supposed to be wlan0. I dont get this.. Check this output:

root@yos network-scripts # ifup eth0
IP variable missing for ifcfg-eth0, cannot continue
root@yos network-scripts # ifup wlan0
IP variable missing for ifcfg-wlan0, cannot continue
root@yos network-scripts # cat ifcfg-eth0
ONBOOT=yes
IP=
NETMASK=
BROADCAST=
root@yos network-scripts # cat ifcfg-wlan0
DEVICE=wlan0
USERCTL=yes
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Managed
ESSID=LogR_privato

any suggestions? Don't wanna be caught in Windows any more...

[variant]

please post the entire output of the "ifconfig" command, dont put "ifconfig eth0" or wlan0 just ifconfig on its own. it should list all the interfaces and how they are configured. please post all that output in your reply.

[Pundit]

root@yos lasse # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:F1:2B:21:1B
inet addr:192.168.1.51 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2027 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1899086 (1.8 Mb) TX bytes:424460 (414.5 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x1000 Memory:e0200000-e0200fff

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

root@yos lasse # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

dummy0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"LogR_privato" Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel:1 Access Point: 00:A0:C5:98:ED:59
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=32 dBm
Retry:on RTS thr=2304 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:333F-3523-6E30-246B-3F64-287E-62 Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-32 dBm Noise level:-98 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 no wireless extensions.

[Pundit]

ops, you get my current wep key as a bonus

edit: WTF: I unplugged the tp cable because I saw that kwifimanager displayed an IP-address, and I can still surf! So apparantely it works!!

BUt it would be nice to have everything set up the way it SHOULD be, to have a system thats perfectly confed!

[variant]

you dont seem to have installed your wlan interface properly or the modules you loaded are incorrect if this is the case then "ifconfig wlan0" will say sojmething like:

wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found