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Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch



I demand that Matthias Julius may or may not have written...

> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>> And almost every laptop comes with wired and wireless interfaces.

> I almost wrote that myself, but they have different names and dont
> compete for numbers.

It depends on which driver is used: for example, ipw3945 uses the 'eth'
namespace, whereas iwlwifi uses 'wlan' and 'wmaster'.

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