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

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:11:23 +0200
Michael Buesch [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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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.

It was udev, don't know why Ubuntu was adding a rule for it (and getting wrong)
value.

CC' TIm

Was it a rule by PCI ID? If so then perhaps its based on the old
madwifi rules of sticking to ath%d notation as well. This can be
removed for ath5k but not too sure how this works.

  Luis