On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 12:18 +0100, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> Xavier Bestel:
> > On most distributions there are udev rules to maintain network devices
> > names constant, they may interfere with your setup. For a start, "ath0"
> > is a madwifi name and should be replaced by "wlan0" with the ath5k
> > driver.
> > You should try to remove all predefined names from the udev rules (on my
> > debian setup it's in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules), reboot,
> > look at the created names and change your hostapd config accordingly.
>
> Taking another look in my dmesg, I found this line
>
> udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to ath0
>
> So something similar is obviously going on her on my Fedora system.
> I'll remove these settings and try again.
>
> (But could really a name change explain my problems? It did change to
> ath0, and ath0 is what all my configurations points to. So it looks
> as if it would be consistent. I'll try anyway, but it looks a bit
> far-fetched, doesn't it?)
No, the name change doesn't explain it all.
Does your setup work with regular wifi devices (e.g. a linux laptop) ?
Xav
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