On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:52:12 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > IMHO, We have already used ethX for all the time that this driver has been > used. Therefore, most likely, if we change from eth1 to wlan0, we are going > to mix up more people than we can mix new people.
ipw is not the only driver. There are also drivers for other cards that will use ieee80211 layer when it is mature enough. Most of them use wlan0 now. Should we mix up their users because of ipw? > We had a long talk about this in the IPW ML and at the end we considered the > wireless adapter an ethernet interface too, so we just sticked with ethX. Although 802.11 and 802.3 are bridgeable, they are not the same and they have slightly different needs. For example, you want to get management frames by packet socket - this is not compatible with ethernet in any way. -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
