Why does my wifi use wlan1 and wired ethernet use eth2?
Hi there.
Here's some of /var/log/messages to start things off:
Feb 28 00:16:55 buckyball kernel: [ 2.601270] eth%d:
RTL8168E-VL/8111E-VL at 0xffffc90000c7e000, e8:03:9a:08:d0:74, IRQ 41
Feb 28 00:16:55 buckyball kernel: [ 23.106590] r8168: eth2: link down
Feb 28 00:16:55 buckyball kernel: [ 23.108215] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):
eth2: link is not ready
OK I don't have the wired ethernet connected.
Feb 28 00:16:55 buckyball kernel: [ 22.642834] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):
wlan1: link is not ready
Feb 28 00:16:55 buckyball kernel: [ 23.483510]
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan1: link becomes ready
lspci reveals
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
I've tried setting these to eth0 and wlan0 but I'm getting console
messages like "device not found" for wlan0 - they're not logged anywhere
I can find them.
Eth0 isn't so important for now, but I'd like to know, where does Debian
get these magic names from?
Regards,
Philip Ashmore
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