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. The
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:37 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I noticed that wireless patches are now in the mainline. That is good,
> patches are getting smaller, but it is going to make future user
> interface changes harder; and thats very bad.
Only a very early version of the ieee80211 header was i
Hi!
> > There are good reasons to have wireless interfaces as wlanX, with
> > tcpdump showing wireless packetes, etc; but current patches name it
> > ethX, and you get plain ethernet packets on tcpdump. Are we going to
> > keep showing wireless interfaces as ethernet ones forever, or do we
> > pla
> Hi!
>
> I noticed that wireless patches are now in the mainline. That is good,
> patches are getting smaller, but it is going to make future user
> interface changes harder; and thats very bad.
Hi,
I'm also happy that these are in mainline now.
>
> There are good reasons to have wireless interf
