On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:34:29 -0400 > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > CC' TIm > > > > Was it a rule by PCI ID? If so then perhaps its based on the old > > madwifi rules of sticking to ath%d notation as well. This can be > > removed for ath5k but not too sure how this works. > > > > It was by PCI ID Then I guess that rule should be removed from udev because of ath5k, if we let the driver pick the name then we'd get ath%d for madwifi driver and wlan%d for ath5k. Would help with troubleshooting too. Tim? :-) Luis - 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
