Re: Change interface name

2003-05-04 Thread Paul Hampson
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:04:14PM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:55:42PM +0200, 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 /

Re: Change interface name

2003-04-25 Thread Heather Stern
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:55:42PM +0200, 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 crea

Re: Change interface name

2003-04-18 Thread Jeff
Mike Beattie, 2003-Apr-18 22:49 +1200: > 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 f

Re: Change interface name

2003-04-18 Thread Craig Genner
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 f

Re: Change interface name

2003-04-18 Thread Andrew May
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. ge

Re: Change interface name

2003-04-18 Thread Frank Trenkamp
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 ..

Re: Change interface name

2003-04-18 Thread Craig Genner
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 an

Re: Change interface name

2003-04-18 Thread Mike Beattie
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. Yo