Re: WaveLAN as wvlan0?

David Hinds schrieb:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:44:52PM +0100, Steven Scholz wrote:
> 
>>I want to configure my Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter as wvlan0 
>>and not as eth1.
> 
> 
> see 'man nameif'.
> 
> 
>>After some reading I got the impression that a line like
>>
>>module "orinoco_cs" opts "port_type=3 station_name=MY_PC channel=3 eth=0"
>>
>>would give me wvlan0. But it looks like this will only work if I use 
>>"orinoco_cs " as a module. I have compiled everything into the
>>kernel. So no modules...
> 
> 
> If you want to do it this way, recompile the driver as a module.  I do
> not recommend linking PCMCIA drivers into the kernel, and this is one
> of the reasons.
Dave, do you mean every PCMCIA driver like ds and pcmcia_core etc. or do you 
mean only the client modules like orinoco_cs.o etc ???

Thanks!

Steven




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