how to get rid of "wlan0"?

how to get rid of "wlan0"?

[Harald Dunkel]

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Hi folks,

I have used a 3rd-party wlan driver "zd1211" for months. The
device alias was called "wlan0". (Its an usb WLAN dongle.)

With 2.6.18-rc1 there is a driver "zd1211rw" included in the
kernel sources, coming from the same people (AFAICT). But now
the device alias is supposed to be called "eth?". Of course
iwconfig still shows a "wlan0" device, and fails to configure
the new driver :-(.

How comes? Does udev somehow "remember" the old "wlan0" and
refuses to provide "eth2"? What would be your recommendation?


Many thanx

Harri



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Re: how to get rid of "wlan0"?

[Marco d'Itri]

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On Jul 11, Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> wrote:

> How comes? Does udev somehow "remember" the old "wlan0" and
> refuses to provide "eth2"? What would be your recommendation?
Some distributions do. I recommend you fix your configuration to not
depend on the device name.

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Marco

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Re: how to get rid of "wlan0"?

[Harald Dunkel]

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Hi Marco,

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 11, Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> wrote:
> 
>> How comes? Does udev somehow "remember" the old "wlan0" and
>> refuses to provide "eth2"? What would be your recommendation?
> Some distributions do. I recommend you fix your configuration to not
> depend on the device name.
> 
There was a generated file

	/etc/udev/z25_persistent-net.rules

mapping mac addresses to device aliases. After removing it
I got the expected "eth2" for 2.6.18-rc1, and the old driver
still had "wlan0". The file wasn't regenerated, eth0 and eth1
are available, too, so I think it was obsolete, anyway.


Many thanx

Harri



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