On Friday 18 Apr 2003 1:55 pm, Frank Trenkamp wrote: > Hi, > > > 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 > > uhm, that won't work. Network interfaces are created "on the fly" by the > kernel, there are no corresponding device files in /dev .. even if eth0 is > up and running, you will find no /dev/eth0, and most likely no wlan0 > either. > > I have never used devfs so far, so I don't know if that makes a difference, > but I guess not.
Didn't know that as I've never had a problem with network hardware under linux. Guess I'm just used to solving problems this way.
