Re: Change interface name

[Craig Genner <craig@gennerfam.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Friday 18 Apr 2003 11:49 am, Mike Beattie wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:49:46PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> > I'd like to have it use wlan0 when it loads up instead of eth0 as the
> > interface name, but I can't find how to do that.  My google searches
> > haven't turned up anything that works and I haven't found anything
> > searching the list archive.
>
> You cant. the driver registers the card as 'eth', not 'wlan'. AFAIAA,
> linux-wlan-ng is the only set of drivers that registers 'wlan' devices.
>
> (find the module source, you'll see 'eth' hardcoded)

But if you really wanted to use wlan0 the just create a sym link called wlan0 
in /dev that points to eth0
Some thing like:

cd /dev
ln -s eth0 wlan0

Just a suggestion.

Craig