On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Feature for kaweth.c: setting the device name > From:Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. > > > SIOCSIFNAME handles this generically in the network core > >=20 > > Very well, therefore I consider this case closed. > > Sorry, not yet for me. > > I can do the SIOCSIFNAME only if the net device is already there. What > I want is that I give the kaweth device eg. the name usb0 (next one usb1 > and so on), my wireless orinoco eg. wlan0 and so on. At the moment, > the names depend on the order I plug them in.
Yes, as it should. > But I want to know which sort of device I > have, so that I can configure them automatically using hotplug and > ifupdown (from Debian). This has come up many times before. Ethernet adapters have unique station addresses. If you need a specific configuration for a NIC, key off of the station address instead of the name. While most distributions only have a mechanism based on the interface name, that's not the only way to do it. > With a module parameter I could achieve this with either configuring it > in /etc/modules.conf or loading the module(s) on boot with parameters. Down this path lay... And what do you do with a name conflict? -- Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
