From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
"Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: ath5k and network manager
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:35:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920083514.4a4f1b3f@freepuppy.rosehill> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890709200834xc6947f5g50a6cf0c5bd4d971@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:34:29 -0400
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
It was by PCI ID
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 4:40 ath5k and network manager Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-20 12:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-20 13:11 ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-20 15:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-20 15:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-20 15:35 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-09-20 15:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-20 15:42 ` Tim Gardner
2007-09-20 15:50 ` Faidon Liambotis
2007-09-25 18:27 ` Dan Williams
2007-09-25 19:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-20 15:51 ` Dan Williams
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