Live CD ath0 network interfaces not configured after boot

[Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger]

hoary-live-i386.iso (preview march 22)

ath network interfaces don't get configured (hotplug?)

after manually starting with dhclient it works as expected

(tested without any WEP/WPA auth)

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

There is nothing in /etc/network/interfaces for ath0?

[Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger (wuerdinger)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> There is nothing in /etc/network/interfaces for ath0?

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu # cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map ath0

I had to do the following by hand to get the net connection running

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu # iwconfig ath0 mode Managed
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu # touch /etc/resolv.conf
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu # dhclient ath0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/ath0/00:0f:b5:26:ab:17
Sending on LPF/ath0/00:0f:b5:26:ab:17
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
ip length 314 disagrees with bytes received 534.
accepting packet with data after udp payload.
DHCPACK from 192.168.111.1
bound to 192.168.111.5 -- renewal in 33690 seconds.

[Ryan Thiessen (mail-theantix)]

This bug still exists with the breezy live CD build Aug 8, 2005 for i386.

May be a duplicate of bug 12121 ?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I have the same problem during an ordinary (well, netboot) install...

My ath0 card is simply missing from /etc/network/interfaces and has to be
manually added after the install has finished.

[Steven Harms (sharms)]

Can this be confirmed on recent releases? I don't believe this is an issue anymore.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Any news on this ?

[Brett Cook (brett-cook-netzero)]

I just installed from the Live CD 7.04 and my eth0 wasn't configured. I ran dhclient manually and everything worked.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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