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000krf

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Registered: 2008-10-30

Posts: 23

Atheros AR2413 802.11bg NIC wlan0 or ath0?

...Or does it matter?

I was starting to install Arch today when I noticed that the install program was identifying my wireless card on my laptop as wlan0. All other distros that I have tried - Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora - have identified it as ath0. In Ubuntu 8.04, the card was automagically configured and worked great. I'm not sure if Arch listing it as wlan0 will be a problem or not or is it just using I different driver?

Kent.

esters

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 173

Re: Atheros AR2413 802.11bg NIC wlan0 or ath0?

or is it just using I different driver?

Rhetorical question

ath0 is when ath_pci is used.
wlan0 is when ath5k is used.

Last edited by esters (2008-11-01 15:50:40)

000krf

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Registered: 2008-10-30

Posts: 23

Re: Atheros AR2413 802.11bg NIC wlan0 or ath0?

or is it just using I different driver?

Rhetorical question

ath0 is when ath_pci is used.
wlan0 is when ath5k is used.

Actually, it wasn't meant to be rhetorical

Thanks.