2009/6/2 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>:
> 2009/6/2 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>:
>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 06:31:20 +0100, Mick wrote:
>>
>>> My log shows that wlan0 is renamed to wlan1:
>>>
>>> Not sure why this happens. Any ideas?
>>
>> It's udev, you probably used another wireless device, with a different
>> MAC address, as wlan0 in the past. Edit or
>> delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to fix it.
>
> You are both frightfully correct!
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="net",
> ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:20:a6:60:d7:cb",
> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="ath*", NAME="ath0"
>
> I'll delete it now and see what gives, thank you! :)
I'm afraid that although my card is now recognised as wlan0, both
wpa_cli and gui insist on trying to connect to ath0, unless I specify
-iwlan0 at the terminal. I don't have (knowingly) specified ath0 in
any other configuration file ... where else could wpa_supplicant pick
this from?
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Regards,
Mick
