Re: [Madwifi-users] Interface names for Atheros driver]

[Steve D. <sdo...@ya...>]

Hi all

No one seems to have mentioned the '/sbin/ip' app installed as part of the
iproute2 package...if you've got this app, you can issue the following
command to change the interface name of any interface:

/sbin/ip link set ath0 name eth0

Just add this command manually to a boot script which runs right after the
ath0 interface is initialized and you're golden.  Note that 'eth0' above can
just as easily be 'foo0' or 'wlan0'.

The howto for iproute2 (which covers way more than just interface renaming)
can be found at http://lartc.org/howto/ .  There seem to be RPMs and DEBs
available for all the distributions if you don't care to compile this on
your own...

Cheers
-s

> From: Greg Chesson <ma...@at...>
> Reply-To: ma...@at...
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:08:01 -0700
> To: mad...@li...
> Subject: [Madwifi-users] Interface names for Atheros driver]
> 
> While developing the driver, it has been a distinct advantage to hand
> configure the device.
> 
> Having the OS automagically enable a lot of procedures and software can get
> in the way of a debugging and doing a gradual bringup.
> 
> When the driver is stable and we've worked down the wishlist of todo items,
> particularly 802.1X, WPA, and QoS, then it might be reasonable to perhaps
> name the device something else.    Personally I consider it less work
> to include some scripts that can add "ath0" to the various places in the OS
> that need to know.    This is particularly useful when trying to manage
> different security profiles and associating the profiles with a
> particular device
> (you'd like to have a stable name for the device).
> 
> g
> 
> 
> 
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