Bug#453148: Ralink driver updates

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 23:42 +0200, carlos bahillo wrote:
> IT WORKS !

Which driver works?  If you're not sure which is actually being used,
try running:

    readlink /sys/class/net/$DEV_NAME/device/driver

where $DEV_NAME is the name ifconfig shows.

> But now the iwconfig and ifconfig camands must point to eth1 instead
> of wlan0.
> I suppose that this is like that in order to meet some debian policy
> about this.

So far as I'm aware:
- the original Ralink driver uses the prefix "rausb" (by default)
- the Debian package has long used "eth"
- the new drivers included in Linux 2.6.24 and later use "wlan"

However, udev should remember the name assigned to each card and restore
it consistently.  So I don't understand why the name would change now.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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