[driverloader] Intel Centrino name

[Jan Slupski]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Dimitris Stasinopoulos wrote:

> That would be nice, since many wireless-manipulating programs expect to
> see wlan[X] and not eth[X].

Hi Dimitris, Hi Luca

Please look at  command
$ dldrconfig --netdevname

eg. you may want to use

$ dldrconfig --netdevname=wlan%d

Hope that helps...

Jan


> > just a wish of mine. Now, my Intel Centrino WiFi is recognized under
> > kernel 2.4.x as 'eth1' and I can successfully configure it (kernel
> > 2.6.0-test9 freezes after having loaded the module). As it's not an
> > ethernet card but a wireless one, I'd like to see it as 'wlan0' than
> > 'eth1'.
> >
> > Is there a way to do so by user, I mean, not modifying the DriverLoader
> > source?
> >
> > Thx, bye,
> > Gismo / Luca
>
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