Re: eth2: unknown interface: No such device

"Fabio Antonini" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.atmel-wlan
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oliver Kurth writes: 

> 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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>   .''`.
>  : :' :    Oliver Kurth [email protected]
>  `. `'           Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.org
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The problem appears also with wlan0. I've changed everywhere eth2 with wlan0 
but the problem is present yet. Can be a problem that my board has already 
two ethernet devices configured??? how many network adapter can the linux 
handle??? is a silly question??
greetings
Fabio 

Fabio Antonini
Kasko Networks S.r.l.
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