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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:34:29 -0400
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: ath5k and network manager
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On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:11:23 +0200
> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> It was udev, don't know why Ubuntu was adding a rule for it (and getting wrong)
> value.
>

CC' TIm

Was it a rule by PCI ID? If so then perhaps its based on the old
madwifi rules of sticking to ath%d notation as well. This can be
removed for ath5k but not too sure how this works.

  Luis