Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44567 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752485AbXIYSaT (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:30:19 -0400 Subject: Re: ath5k and network manager From: Dan Williams To: Faidon Liambotis Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, networkmanager-list@gnome.org In-Reply-To: <46F296D8.3090704@debian.org> References: <20070919214007.1a6a9b4a@freepuppy.rosehill> <43e72e890709200555r779aaa50i6bb8ab90195686bc@mail.gmail.com> <200709201511.23400.mb@bu3sch.de> <46F296D8.3090704@debian.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:27:44 -0400 Message-Id: <1190744864.27777.25.camel@xo-3E-67-34.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:50 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > [CCing networkmanager mailing list] > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2007, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger 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 ? > > > > Probably udev renames it. > IMHO, NetworkManager should cope with whatever name is assigned to a device. > AFAIK, device names are only "suggestions" by the drivers; the user may > rename the device name (either by "ip link set name", with ifrename or > with udev rules) to his liking, e.g. home. 0.7 svn trunk uses device indexes internally already. > Granted, seems a bit of an overkill to rename a device on a machine > where NetworkManager is in charge of the device but still, there is no > reason why it shouldn't be allowed. No reason why you shouldn't be able to do this with NM. Dan > Regards, > Faidon > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list