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On Thursday 20 September 2007, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Network manager doesn't seem to detect ath5k. Perhaps it is because
> > it is name "ath0".  I think device should follow the convention of using
> > name "wifi0" rather than BSD convention of putting driver name in device name.
> 
> I couldn't agree anymore. But my ath5k kicks out a wlan%d name as with
> any other mac80211 driver. Is yours coming out to ath%d ?
> 
> ieee80211_register_hw():
> 
>         /* add one default STA interface */
>         result = ieee80211_if_add(local->mdev, "wlan%d", NULL,
>                                   IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA);
> 


Probably udev renames it.



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