On Thursday 20 September 2007, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

On 9/20/07, Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.