On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I was under the impression that when you set up a wireless lan nic it was
> assigned a device name of wlan something. Indeed on my desktop I have
> a wireless lan card and the wireless lan device is wlan0, the wired nic card
> is eth0. But on my laptop eth0 is the wired device and eth1 is the wlan
> device, It appears that the nic management tool is trying to handle the
> ethernet device as though it was a wireless nic. I just disregard the
> wireless
> stuff for it, but it is not logical to step through a bunch of wireless
> params
> for a wired nic. What is involved in changing eth1 to wlan0? so that it is
> more like what I am used to with other wireless card installs? Not sure
> why the system has set it's self up this way. I am using SuSE 10.1,
> but it was like that with 10.0 too.
Is the "wlan" one running an older kernel? I looked in the source for
2.6.1[35].1 and found no uses of the string "wlan" but found 7 references to
the string "eth" each. I think that sort of thing is controlled by the
kernel. If you're running one specific to your distribution, who knows how
they've modified it. What I did was
eben@pc:~$ uname -r
2.6.13.1
eben@pc:~$ find /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep '"wlan"'
eben@pc:~$ find /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep '"eth"'
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c:__setup("eth", eth_setup);
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c: .name = "eth",
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/arch/xtensa/platform-iss/network.c:__setup("eth", iss_net_setup);
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/drivers/net/Space.c: unsigned long base_addr = netdev_boot_base("eth", unit);
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/drivers/net/sunhme.c: if (!strncmp(dev->name, "eth", 3)) {
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c: if (!(q = strstr(p+strlen(dev->name), "eth"))) q = p + strlen(p);
/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/net/irda/irlan/irlan_common.c:static int eth; /* Use "eth" or "irlan" name for devices */
If you see anything additional (except maybe "rcX") in the "uname"'s output,
you have a modified kernel.
Your kernel source (if installed) may be elsewhere.
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