debian gnome ipw2200 =>eth1_rename error

Hi Hans.

Hans du Plooy, 12.04.2007 22:00:
> When I load my wireless driver, be it ndiswrapper or bcm43xxx, the
> interface comes up as eth0_rename or wlan0_rename, and I see this in
> dmesg:
>
> wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:2a:04:28 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5,
> version: 0x40a2801, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: '', 14E4:4318.5.conf
> wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK;
> AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
> ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'wlan0_rename'
> usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
>
> Anybody know why? It's not too much of a problem, the interface still
> works, it just looks out of place.

Do you have ifrename installed? If yes, just get rid of it and run
/lib/udev/write_net_rules instead; this will generate udev-based persistent
naming rules for your network devices; you can modify them by editing the file
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules. What to edit should be pretty clear;
if not, have look at this[0] howto.