Re: Change interface name
On Friday 18 Apr 2003 1:55 pm, Frank Trenkamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 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
>
> uhm, that won't work. Network interfaces are created "on the fly" by the
> kernel, there are no corresponding device files in /dev .. even if eth0 is
> up and running, you will find no /dev/eth0, and most likely no wlan0
> either.
>
> I have never used devfs so far, so I don't know if that makes a difference,
> but I guess not.
Didn't know that as I've never had a problem with network hardware under
linux. Guess I'm just used to solving problems this way.
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