Re: [Madwifi-users] Re: How to start ath0 automatically?

[<su...@mo...>]

Reading http://www.vollink.com/gary/deb_wifi.html, I suggest you remove 
the auto ath0 line. The allow-hotplug ath0 should be enough, so that 
ath0 gets configured, when it is available.

However, the page seems to be based on the old driver, that gave you 
ath0 immediately, whereas the new one just gives you wifi0. Thus the 
plan seems to be as follows:

Get hotplug to execute the wlanconfig ath0 create... when it loads the 
driver, creating wifi0 (I don't know how, but not in 
/etc/network/interfaces, so it should be removed from there)

Then let ifplugd (I assume it is it that gets called by the 
allow-hotplug) detect that ath0 is up, and configure ath0 as per the 
rest of the entry in /etc/network/interfaces.

As for taking ath0 down again (the post-down), I would think, that that 
too should be done via hotplug, since it would now be it, that is 
responsible for putting it up in the first place.

Best regards,

Sune

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