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On 10/10/2010 09:43 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 08:39 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>> Sorry about that.  If anyone has any example udev magic to do this sort
>> of thing, I'd like to try that out.
>
> This works:
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-phyname.rules:
> -- begin --
> ACTION!="add", GOTO="phyname_end"
> SUBSYSTEM!="ieee80211", GOTO="phyname_end"
>
> # read MAC address
> ENV{MATCHADDR}="$attr{macaddress}"
> ENV{PHYIDX}="$attr{index}"
>
> ENV{MATCHADDR}=="02:00:00:00:00:00", RUN+="/usr/sbin/iw %k set name hwsim0"
>
> LABEL="phyname_end"
> -- end --
>
> Of course, you'd probably want to do something like
> persistent-net-generator etc, but I'll leave that to somebody else.
>
> Just remember you can't actually name it "phy0".

Ok, that part is working.

However, the 'phy0' name doesn't change in
/debug/ath5k/[phy-dev]/ link, so it confuses my tools.

I'm going to see if I can get that fixed somehow...

Thanks,
Ben

>
> johannes
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