[arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

[didier gaumet]

Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:51:02 +0200,
Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Great thanks a lot, I didn't restart the system but starting the
> service I get a "nl80211 not found" error.

I don't use Archlinux anymore and thus can't be affirmative but I
think this is not really a problem because this feature is compiled in
the kernel instead of being available as a module.
You can verify if the crda service has been active (it starts but dies
after having modified regulatory settings) by just typing
 sudo crda
in a terminal.  

> Did you also get the password error or just losing the connection?

I don't remember. I just use crda because by default regulatory
settings are for the USA. So all channels are not available and some of
them are attenuated.

> By the way I would really like to understand why eth0 and eth1 are
> often switched.
> 
> One boot I even saw finally wlan0 as wireless interface device name,
> is there a way to fix them forever?

this is probably an udev issue:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mixed_Up_Devices.2C_Sound.2FNetwork_Cards_Changing_Order_Each_Boot