Remapping wlan0 to eth0

Berhanie · 02-15-2005, 02:47 AM

I'm using Slackware 10.1 with a 2.4.29 kernel. My USB NIC gets detected as wlan0. Running

Code:

modinfo at76c503-rfmd

gives

Code:

filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/usb/at76c503-rfmd.o
description: "Atmel at76c503 (RFMD) Wireless LAN Driver"
author:      "Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx>, Joerg Albert <joerg.albert@gmx.de>, Alex <alex@foogod.com>"
license:     "GPL"
parm:        netdev_name char, description "network device name (default is wlan%d)"

I can get the desired remapping with this /etc/modules.conf:

Code:

# ignore the builtin NIC (eth0)
# make sure our usb card becomes eth0 (default is wlan0)
alias tulip off
options at76c503-rfmd netdev_name=eth0

So, everything is o.k. However, I am curious as to why the following in modules.conf doesn't do the job:

Code:

alias tulip off
alias eth0 at76c503-rfmd

edafe · 02-17-2005, 07:59 AM

Berhanie,
I think I had a similar problem getting the Host AP driver to work with Slackware. Host AP substitutes wlan for eth.
Maybe you can do something with this:

http://www.edafe.org/slackware/index.html#hostap

Regards,
Edafe