[driverloader] DriverLoaderNetDevName= lost on upgrade

Linuxant Support (Jonathan) support at linuxant.com
Mon Aug 2 14:56:49 EDT 2004


Hi,

the '%d' in the NetDevName is replaced by a number. This number starts at 0 
and is increased if the wireless interface name generated is already in use.

For example, if the NetDevName is set to 'wlan%d' and you have already a 
wireless interface named 'wlan0' which is not driven by DriverLoader, when 
you will insert the DriverLoader module in your kernel, both 'wlan1' and 
'wlan2' will be created.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Le 1 Août 2004 13:51, Max a écrit :
> Marc,
>
> What if there are two wireless adapters with assigned interfaces, say,
> wlan1 and wlan2 ?
>
> Max
>
> Marc Boucher wrote:
> > Hi Max,
> >
> > try saving the desired permanent DriverLoaderNetDevName parameter value
> > in a new file called  /etc/driverloader/static/netdevnameformat
> >
> >  From the shell, you can do "echo 'NNN%d' >
> > /etc/driverloader/static/netdevnameformat"
> > (replace NNN with the desired interface name prefix)
> >
> > The contents of /etc/driverloader/static/ should be preserved across
> > upgrades.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > --
> > Marc Boucher
> > Linuxant inc.
> >
> > On Jul 29, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Max wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> On each driverloader version upgrade DriverLoaderNetDevName= parameter
> >> disappears from /etc/driverloader/config/ files.
> >> Each time I'm forced to restore it manually. Is it possible for
> >> driverloader installation to preserve current DriverLoaderNetDevName=
> >> parameter?
> >>
> >> P.S. I'm using .deb distribution, and install it with dpkg -i
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Max
> >>
> >>
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