Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc1 and no /dev/rt73usb

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Friday 15 February 2008, Adam Turk wrote:
> 
> > You are completely missing the point of the concept "modules",
> > the module rt73usb is intended to support devices with the rt73 chipset.
> >
> > The rt73usb driver registers the device and creates an network interface
> > inside the kernel. This interface is visible to you as user. The name of this
> > interface is wlan, depending on the number of wireless network cards in
> > your system the interface number is attached to it so in your case wlan0.
> 
> Yep, I could be missing the concept of modules entirely.  
> 
> The driver I was using before had the interface name of rt73.  When I see 
> usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb

Seriously, I wonder with what driver you managed to pull that off.
As far as I know there is no rt73 driver that registers an interface called rt73.
Neither the Ralink drivers, the rt73 legacy driver or the rt73usb driver ever
did such a thing.

Granted the name did change. The Ralink driver and early legacy drivers
did create the interface with the name "rausb", this is still not the same
as "rt73".

Additionally:
> usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb

Using a different rt73 driver would also produce this line (replacing rt73usb
with rt73 or whatever the name of the driver was).
But like I said earlier, I know of no rt73 driver that registered a network
interface named rt73. It is either "wlan" or "rausb". Unless off course you
edited the /etc/modprobe.conf file to load the driver with the rt73 interface name,
but that can be considered "user configuration".

Ivo