On 15/03/10 04:58, Simon Geard wrote: > That should be a very rare case, I think. Wireless devices will > generally be named wlan* by the kernel, and wired devices will be eth*. > That's the case on my desktop (with a wireless card), and on every > laptop I've used in recent years... >
It may be a rare case but it's not unknown. My Dell mini netbook came with a broadcom wireless card. The open source driver didn't work very well so I had to use the closed source binary blob from broadcom. The open source driver called the interface wlan0 but the Broadcom driver called it eth1. I couldn't stand having to reinstall the binary blob every time I reinstalled the kernel (even the open source driver needed a firmware binary blob to work) so I bought a cheap Atheros card which works perfectly (and calls the interface wlan0). Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
