Bug#414557: fails to create ath1 if ath0 is not present

[Kel Modderman]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:11:40 am Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Package: madwifi-tools
> Version: 1:0.9.2+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure if that's a problem with madwifi-tools or the kernel
> driver.  FWIW, I using version 0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2 of the kernel
> driver.
>
> 	root at cepheus:~# ifconfig -a | grep ath
> 	root at cepheus:~# wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
> 	ath1
> 	root at cepheus:~# ifconfig -a | grep ath
> 	ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:xx:xx:xx:xx
>
> So ath0 is created instead of ath1.  This happens to jumble ifupdown.

I think this may be udev rules, check:

/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules

for rules with athX.

Thanks, Kel