On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:50 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > [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. 0.7 svn trunk uses device indexes internally already. > 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. No reason why you shouldn't be able to do this with NM. Dan > Regards, > Faidon > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list - 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
