Re: eth2: unknown interface: No such device

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:14:28PM +0200, Fabio Antonini wrote:
> Hello all
> I'testing the at76c503 driver on a WUSB11 v.2.6 connected (via USB) on a 
> PPC based board. The setup is the following: 
> 
> the file /etc/network/interfaces contain the following lines to set the 
> wireless network interface: 
> 
> auto eth2
> iface eth2 inet static

> 
> If I try to configure eth2 by hand with iwconfig
> I receive the following message
> eth2:   no such device
> The eth2 interface is unknown. Probably I haven't set up correctly the eth2 
> and this is a "absolute beginner" question and this isn't the most right 
> place where to ask for help about this item, but I hope that anyone could 
> help me. Any suggest will be appreciated.
> Thank you for your attention. 

The device gets the name wlan%d, ie. the first one gets the name wlan0 - not
eth%d.

Unless you used the 'netdev_name' module parameter.

Greetings,
oliver

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