Author: bdubbs
Date: 2006-07-30 17:03:21 -0600 (Sun, 30 Jul 2006)
New Revision: 7720
Modified:
branches/6.2/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml
Log:
Fix explanation of udev rules for drivers that create multiple interfaces
Modified: branches/6.2/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml
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--- branches/6.2/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml 2006-07-30 22:24:18 UTC (rev
7719)
+++ branches/6.2/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml 2006-07-30 23:03:21 UTC (rev
7720)
@@ -90,12 +90,11 @@
the bus position as a key.</para>
<para>The second known non-working case is with wireless cards using the
- MadWifi or HostAP drivers, because they create at least two interfaces
- with the same MAC address and bus position. For example, the Madwifi driver
+ MadWifi or HostAP drivers, because they create at least two interfaces with
+ the same MAC address and bus position. For example, the Madwifi driver
creates both an athX and a wifiX interface where X is a digit. To
- disambiguate these cases, add SYSFS{type}=="zzz" after SUBSYSTEM=="net" for
- each interface that is handled by that driver, where zzz is the output of
- <userinput>cat
/sys/class/net/<interface_name>/type</userinput>.</para>
+ differentiate these interfaces, add an appropriate KERNEL parameter such as
+ KERNEL=="ath*" after SUBSYSTEM=="net".</para>
<para>There may be other cases where the rules above don't work. Currently,
bugs on this topic are still being reported to Linux distributions, and no
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