[MLB-WIRELESS] Orinoco eth0 to wlan0

evilbunny evilbunny at sydneywireless.com
Sat Sep 28 22:29:35 EST 2002


Hello Vincent,

Renaming the interface wouldn't help, the different interface names
are due to different drivers and API's for those drivers...

the wlan-ng stuff is for prism2/2.5/3 cards only iirc...

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Saturday, September 28, 2002, 10:02:54 PM, you wrote:

VC> Hello folks,
VC>     I have been wondering how do I 'rename' my ethX to wlanX. As you can see 
VC> from my 'dmesg' orinoco driver assigns an ethX type to my card. Is it 
VC> possible to change it anywhere or do I have to hack those .c and .h files?

VC> Anyone knows what's wrong with these Tx errors?
VC> ethX: Tx error, status 4 (FID=01E3)

VC> Yeah I know version 0.09b is abit old, it came with RedHat7.3, well it works 
VC> all right.

VC> Regards,
VC> Vince.

VC> hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
VC> orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
VC> orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
VC> ethX: Station identity 00xx:00xx:00xx:00xx
VC> ethX: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10
VC> ethX: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
VC> ethX: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
VC> ethX: WEP supported, 104-bit key
VC> ethX: MAC address 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
VC> ethX: Station name "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
VC> ethX: ready
VC> ethX: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
VC> ethX: Tx error, status 4 (FID=01E3)


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