[H-GEN] Small wireless networking problem

[Mark Ellem]

Hi Gary,

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:23, Gary Curtis wrote:
> I have a Netgear WG511 wireless card (802.11b/g). It uses the
> Prism54 driver. I have it working OK (I think) on my Debian testing
> system on a 2.4.27 kernel.
>
> BUT... the infernal thing comes up as 'eth0' or 'eth1' (depending on
> the other card of course) and I really want it to be 'wlan0'.   I want
> totally different configs for the two interfaces and having the wireless
> as wlan0 will help keep my feeble mind in place.
>
> Can I control this?  If so, HOW?

AFAIK, the interface name the driver uses is coded into the driver itself. The 
only way it seems to change it would be to modify the source code yourself or 
make a request to the developers of the prism54 driver. If you haven't 
already, have a look the the driver's website at prism54.org. At the site is 
documentation, forums and contact details of developers for the driver.

I personally prefer the interface name for a wireless card being 'wlanX'. It 
helps to easily identify that it is a wireless card instead of it being 
listed just as 'ethX' where it can be difficult to know first off which one 
is the wireless interface from the normal ethernet interfaces unless you 
check it. The wlan-ng drivers use 'wlanX' which is a lot more descriptive of 
the interface type than just 'ethX' in my opinion.

Mark.