Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:17 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > >> There is *a* device. There are multiple logical network interfaces that >> are bound to that device. I can spawn five logical network interfaces >> and still only have one device. NM thinks I spawned five devices: that >> behaviour can be improved (by de-aliasing them via /sys or whatever I >> don't mind). > > No, it can't really do that because you may actually want NM to control > multiple virtual interfaces if your hardware supports multiple STA Well if for whatever reason you can spawn multiple logical network interfaces in the stack, as you can, NM should generically be aware that aliases exist it seems to me. If a device can handle two associations simultaneously (with two radios?), which I take the "multiple STA" to mean, maybe it should present as two wiphys and NM can take the hint from that? -Andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
