[arch-dev-public] adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf

Damir Perisa damir.perisa at solnet.ch
Fri Dec 21 19:24:33 EST 2007


Friday 21 December 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
 | On Dec 21, 2007 10:37 AM, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa at solnet.ch> 
wrote:
 | > i'm not using ndiswrapper myself, just had to try it once. i'm
 | > not sure enough if this should not be like this to file a bug.
 | > rather i wanted to hear from other devs who do use it if this is
 | > normal (wanted) behaviour. i think it isn't.
 |
 | I use it, and it's normal. It's actually done by
 | /usr/bin/ndiswrapper. It adds the alias directive there once. If
 | you modify it, or do nothing, the exact same command will return
 | with a "already contains alias directive" line, or something of
 | the sort.
 |
 | So change it to wlan1 and then reinstall, it should not be
 | overwritten.

ah ok! so its not a bug but desired behaviour. good to know. thanx

- D

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