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From: "Jason Boxman" <jasonb@edseek.com>
Reply-To: slug@nks.net
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] eth1 or wlan1
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:03:25 -0400 (EDT)
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.
Last I looked it depended entirely on the driver being used. hostap liked
to use wlanX whereas ndiswrapper prefers ethX for example.
I don't think ndiswrapper is the problem. I use it and mine is wlan0 and has
been on every NIC I've used, both internal and pcmcia.
That brings up a point. Is this a pcmcia card? If so, I'd take a look at the
pcmcia config file to ensure it's properly defined as I have seen that cause
some weird problems like that.
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