On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:50 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:

[CCing networkmanager mailing list]
Michael Buesch 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 ?

Probably udev renames it.

IMHO, NetworkManager should cope with whatever name is assigned to a device.
AFAIK, device names are only "suggestions" by the drivers; the user may
rename the device name (either by "ip link set name", with ifrename or
with udev rules) to his liking, e.g. home.

0.7 svn trunk uses device indexes internally already.

Granted, seems a bit of an overkill to rename a device on a machine
where NetworkManager is in charge of the device but still, there is no
reason why it shouldn't be allowed.

No reason why you shouldn't be able to do this with NM.

Dan

Regards,
Faidon
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