On Monday 07 February 2005 16:17, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ma, 2005-02-07 kello 16:50 +0100, Mike Hommey kirjoitti: > > Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying > > changes if necessary. > > I completely agree with this. If changing a program makes it better, > Debian should do it even if upstream doesn't. Such changes should be > justified, of course; preferably explicitly. > > > Wireless interfaces should be called wlan%d, not eth%d > > Why is this important? Why does the name of a network interface matter? > All the tools in Debian that can deal with network interfaces are > neutral about the name and the name isn't particularly significant to > users either. If one is worried about which interface name corresponds > to which physical device, guessing from the name is not a good way. > Using ifconfig or iwconfig or other tools to do it is a better way.
ifrename can of course be used to rename an interface, and it is also worth noting that MadWifi uses ath%d, and the RealTech driver uses ra%d. Obviously neither of these are bland as eth0 (which maybe implies wired), but wlan%d is by no means a standard. David > > (I'm not saying that using wlan%d is bad or wrong, I am asking for > justifications for that name over eth%d.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]