[ILUG] Re: Strange problem with WiFi cards

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Sat 26 Mar 2005 12:13, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I have two identical WiFi cards (Orinoco Gold PCMCIA cards).
>>>I use one in my laptop all the time, and it works perfectly.
>>>I thought I would try the other this evening,
>>>but for some reason it would not connect to my desktop.
> 
> 
>>>It is as though Linux somehow takes my usual card as default,
>>>though I don't find anything anywhere to specify that.
>>
>>That's probably a routing issue.  If you have two network interfaces
>>enabled, linux (or any OS for the matter) has to figure out which interface
>>to use to connect to a given resource. 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I probably didn't express myself properly.
> I only have one interface, eth0, on my laptop,
> and that is what I am using with both WiFi cards.
> (I am using the default orinoco_cs driver.)


*confusion*

You interchange the two cards (or) you use them both at once ?

If you use them both at once... you'd end up having eth0 and eth1 or 
ethN and ethN+1, which would imply that dhcpcd eth0 *woudln't* configure 
the second card !!! ! !

If you *interchange* (ie don't have them both connected at once) then 
either there is some breakage with MAC addresses (easily fixed), or 
there is some breakage with hardware .