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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-07-30 23:03:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-07-30 23:03:21 +0000 |
| commit | 3a234c0a82218253d42beb698c76da97052b34f2 (patch) | |
| tree | c3ee934e92fc184737c6bd3eb78dfa33d4e86743 | |
| parent | 28f99a6709425d332d3e198ba9e81d1f1b3afc51 (diff) | |
Fix explanation of udev rules for drivers that create multiple interfaces
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.2/BOOK@7720 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter07/network.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter07/network.xml b/chapter07/network.xml index 5e9d615d3..83bbd0baa 100644 --- a/chapter07/network.xml +++ b/chapter07/network.xml @@ -90,12 +90,11 @@ EOF</userinput></screen> the bus position as a key.</para> <para>The second known non-working case is with wireless cards using the - MadWifi or HostAP drivers, because they create at least two interfaces - with the same MAC address and bus position. For example, the Madwifi driver + MadWifi or HostAP drivers, because they create at least two interfaces with + the same MAC address and bus position. For example, the Madwifi driver creates both an athX and a wifiX interface where X is a digit. To - disambiguate these cases, add SYSFS{type}=="zzz" after SUBSYSTEM=="net" for - each interface that is handled by that driver, where zzz is the output of - <userinput>cat /sys/class/net/<interface_name>/type</userinput>.</para> + differentiate these interfaces, add an appropriate KERNEL parameter such as + KERNEL=="ath*" after SUBSYSTEM=="net".</para> <para>There may be other cases where the rules above don't work. Currently, bugs on this topic are still being reported to Linux distributions, and no |