[Debian-eeepc-devel] madwifi or ath5k in function.sh

[Santi Béjar]

2008/10/19 Artur R. Czechowski <arturcz at hell.pl>:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:57:30AM +0200, Santi Béjar wrote:
>> I've test it with madwifi in 2.6.26 and ath5 in 2.6.27 (just one
>> driver with each kernel) and the patch does what is expected. But if
>> you change from madwifi (ath0 by default) to ath5k (wlan0 by default)
>> you get the wrong $WLAN_IF because the persistent rule in udev:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>> ...
>>
>> # PCI device 0x168c:0x001c (ath_pci)
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:15:af:b7:0a:02",
>> ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="ath0"
> If you have never edited this file you can safely remove it. The file will
> be regenerated at next boot. If you made your own modification to the file
> you can remove only invalid entry.

I know it, but the point is that it should work even if you change the
driver without changing the name (the name of the interface should be
meaningless).

Santi