On 8/8/06, Todd <dumb-ass@acpdata.com> wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
> > On 8/8/06, Sick Twist <thesicktwist@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast@gmail.com>
> >> >Reply-To: slug@nks.net
> >> >To: slug@nks.net
> >> >Subject: [SLUG] eth1 or wlan1
> >> >Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 09:17:23 -0400
> >> >
> >> >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.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if SuSE uses this method but my Ubuntu box uses
> >> /etc/iftab to
> >> allow the user to define interface names. Check out man iftab.
> >>
> >
> > It is not there. I looked for it but can not find it. There is a man
> > page for it
> > but no file.
> >
> Have you seen this article from SuSE? It explains how and why network
> devices are named.
>
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/index.html?page=/documentation/suse10/adminguide/data/sec_basicnet_manconf.html
>
OK, I read it. Still not sure where to poke, it sort of looks like
that is the way
it is. It all appears to work ok, it just does not look right having a wireless
nic card assigned eth1....
Will continue to poke at it and try to see how to make it assign the wifi as
wlan0.
Tnx again...
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