From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ath5k and network manager
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:11:23 +0200
Cc: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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On Thursday 20 September 2007, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Network manager doesn't seem to detect ath5k. Perhaps it is because
> > it is name "ath0".  I think device should follow the convention of using
> > name "wifi0" rather than BSD convention of putting driver name in device name.
> 
> I couldn't agree anymore. But my ath5k kicks out a wlan%d name as with
> any other mac80211 driver. Is yours coming out to ath%d ?
> 
> ieee80211_register_hw():
> 
>         /* add one default STA interface */
>         result = ieee80211_if_add(local->mdev, "wlan%d", NULL,
>                                   IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA);
> 


Probably udev renames it.