change ipw220 interface name from eth1 to wlan0
 

Nothing too critical but would like to change my wireless nic's interface from from eth1 to wlan0. It would just make things a bit more clear. I'm running debian testing right now.

Not sure if it's somthing thats coded in the driver or if it's a configurable attribute.

Ryan

I believe this is coded in the driver, I doubt there is a way to change this, unless you want to code :(

Still, I'm not quite sure... maybe it's possible to create an alias or something like this.

I figured out a way to do this but just forgot to post the solution to my own post.

You need to install the net-tools package i believe and use the command nameif. Basically you create a file /etc/mactab with the first column the name you want the interface and the second the mac address of said interface. then bring down all interfaces and run /sbin/nameif. Now just reconfigure your network scripts and you should be able to bring up your new interface names.

Here is my mactab
if you want this to happen on every boot, just modify /etc/init.d/networking, in the start section before the interfaces are brought up just add /sbin/nameif and you should be ok.

Ryan

Wonderful!

Really interesting, I'm going to use this trick as well :)