Bug#385599: madwifi-source: Problem is with 1587 and 1687

[Kel Modderman]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:41, Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > Just to check, I tried madwifi-ng-{source,tools} r1587 from
> > snapshot.debian.net. That one didn't work either. I had to go back to
> > r1500 to be able to connect again. I hope this info helps.
>
>  Did you bring the master interface up first?  There are now two
>  interfaces by default which you should see in "ifconfig -a", on my
>  system, these are named ath1 and ath0_rename by default.  You should
>  bring both interfaces up (via ifconfig $interface up for example)
>  before calling dhclient on the "VAP" interface (on my system,
>  it's named ath0_rename by default).
>
>    Bye,

Loic, maybe you have been stung by a problem similar to:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/TroubleshootingInstallation#rename_netif

I did plead with Md to have madwifi VAP's excused from the persistent-net udev 
rule, but my argument was not sufficient enough for him to be bothered by it 
at that time.

Thanks, Kel.