On Friday 18 Apr 2003 11:49 am, Mike Beattie wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:49:46PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > I'd like to have it use wlan0 when it loads up instead of eth0 as the > > interface name, but I can't find how to do that. My google searches > > haven't turned up anything that works and I haven't found anything > > searching the list archive. > > You cant. the driver registers the card as 'eth', not 'wlan'. AFAIAA, > linux-wlan-ng is the only set of drivers that registers 'wlan' devices. > > (find the module source, you'll see 'eth' hardcoded)
But if you really wanted to use wlan0 the just create a sym link called wlan0 in /dev that points to eth0 Some thing like: cd /dev ln -s eth0 wlan0 Just a suggestion. Craig
