On Friday 15 February 2008, Adam Turk wrote: > > > You are completely missing the point of the concept "modules", > > the module rt73usb is intended to support devices with the rt73 chipset. > > > > The rt73usb driver registers the device and creates an network interface > > inside the kernel. This interface is visible to you as user. The name of this > > interface is wlan, depending on the number of wireless network cards in > > your system the interface number is attached to it so in your case wlan0. > > Yep, I could be missing the concept of modules entirely. > > The driver I was using before had the interface name of rt73. When I see > usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb Seriously, I wonder with what driver you managed to pull that off. As far as I know there is no rt73 driver that registers an interface called rt73. Neither the Ralink drivers, the rt73 legacy driver or the rt73usb driver ever did such a thing. Granted the name did change. The Ralink driver and early legacy drivers did create the interface with the name "rausb", this is still not the same as "rt73". Additionally: > usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb Using a different rt73 driver would also produce this line (replacing rt73usb with rt73 or whatever the name of the driver was). But like I said earlier, I know of no rt73 driver that registered a network interface named rt73. It is either "wlan" or "rausb". Unless off course you edited the /etc/modprobe.conf file to load the driver with the rt73 interface name, but that can be considered "user configuration". Ivo - 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
