Bug#488267: Should add hostap modules
On Monday 30 June 2008, Barry Tennison wrote:
> (1) In fact, this must be what happens with madwifi too: it always
> creates a sta interface athN, and I'm pretty sure there won't be a udev
> rule in systems without madwifi that makes any reference to athN
> interfaces.
Yes, there is. udev basically renames _any_ network interface...
> where something (hostap_pci?) has silently renamed eth1 to the ugly
> wlan0_rename.
No. *Any* renaming is done by udev and only by udev.
> So arguably it was not a good idea (indeed - a bug?) for udev to be
> told to rename wlan0 to eth1, and it would be better to stick with the
> driver-mandated wlanN names.
Udev got that idea from the installation where the driver assigned the
eth1 name for the interface, so it tries to preserve that. And in fact it
almost succeeds, were it not for the fact that it gets confused by the
fact that the hostap driver creates two interfaces instead of just one.
Cheers,
FJP
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