[CCing networkmanager mailing list] Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2007, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ? > > Probably udev renames it. IMHO, NetworkManager should cope with whatever name is assigned to a device. AFAIK, device names are only "suggestions" by the drivers; the user may rename the device name (either by "ip link set name", with ifrename or with udev rules) to his liking, e.g. home. Granted, seems a bit of an overkill to rename a device on a machine where NetworkManager is in charge of the device but still, there is no reason why it shouldn't be allowed. Regards, Faidon - 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
