I used to be able to change eth1 to wlan0 in etc/iftab but that is deprecated now I think.
How do I go about doing this?
I used to be able to change eth1 to wlan0 in etc/iftab but that is deprecated now I think.
How do I go about doing this?
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HP Pavillion DV9500T 17" Notebook • 2.2GHz Core2 Duo • 4GB RAM • Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS 512MB
Running Ubuntu 10.04 [64-bit]+Gnome+Compiz from HD / Puppy Linux 4.2.1SMP in RAM from USB Flash
you can't. you mean how do you setup wireless?
ok I searched hi and lo and found this after a few hours.
you will see:Code:sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
I just changed the eth1 here to wlan0# This file maintains persistent names for network interfaces.
# See udev(7) for syntax.
#
# Entries are automatically added by the 75-persistent-net-generator.rules
# file; however you are also free to add your own entries.
# PCI device 0x1969:0x1062 (atl1c)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:26:22:4c:XX:XX", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4315 (wl)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="0c:60:76:XX:XX:XX", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
Thanks for your help guys...some programs will not work properly if it thinks a wireless connection is an ethernet connection...
then reboot...or restart networking...
Last edited by Floppyjoe; January 24th, 2010 at 06:58 AM.
interesting. what applications will not work if it recognizes it as eth0?
Don't do this cause the interface gets renamed for some reason after rebooting a few times. Then I had to remove bcmwl-kernel-sources and reintall it to get Ubuntu to stop that behaviour.
for me, remowing "bcmwl-kernel-sources" and "bcmwl-modaliases" helped and I am able to use the conky feature that shows wireless link quality now.
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