Sorry I meant to send this to the group.
On Nov 12, 2007 2:55 PM, evan foss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 2:05 PM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > evan foss wrote:
> > > I can wlist wlan0_rename scan but it has issues and seems to alter
> > > eth1. Now I haven't yet tried this at a location with good signal
> > > quality. I just want to understand what is happening with the
> > > interface name(s).
> >
> > The device renaming is probably handled in directory /etc/udev/rules.d by a
> > rule with "persistent"
> > and "net" in its name. On my openSUSE 10.3 system, it is called
> > 70-persistent-net.rules. On 10.2, it
> > was 30-xxxxxxx. In this file, you should see statements like
> >
> > # PCI device 0x10de:0x0269 (forcedeth)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:16:d3:17:07:2e",
> > NAME="eth0"
> >
> > # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (b43, b43legacy, b43legacy)
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1a:73:04:1d:e5",
> > ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth1"
> >
> > Your rule for the wireless device should have your MAC address
> > (00:14:a5:b7:54:15) in the address
> > field. These rules leave the name of wmaster0 alone, at least on the
> > version of udev that I'm using.
> >
> > Larry
> >
>
> Mine was under 70-persistent-net.rules
> I commented out the following line.
>
> # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (bcm43xx)
> #SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:14:a5:b7:54:15",
> NAME="eth1"
>
> Then reloaded the module. Which caused udev to add this.
>
> # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (b43-pci-bridge)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:14:a5:b7:54:15",
> ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="wlan0"
>
> Which seems to work fine. Except that I still get wmaster0 with wlan0.
> wlan0 gets the correct mac address but won't let me set essid. It does
> scan (iwlist). But I think wmaster0 is causing problems it has the
> same mac address as wlan0 only with a few extra zeros at the end. I
> suspect that wmaster0 is interfering with wlan0.
>
>
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