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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:11:23 +0200
Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

It was udev, don't know why Ubuntu was adding a rule for it (and getting wrong)
value.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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