Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

[Stroller]

On 2 Jun 2009, at 06:31, Mick wrote:
>> ...
>> ath5k calls the device wlan0.
>
> Yes it does, but this is what I am getting when I try to run wpa_cli
> in a
> terminal:
> =====================================================
> $ wpa_cli
> wpa_cli v0.6.4
> Copyright (c) 2004-2008, Jouni Malinen <j@××.fi> and contributors
>
> This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
>
> Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
> BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details.
>
>
> Selected interface 'ath0'
> Could not connect to wpa_supplicant - re-trying
> ...
> Why is it picking up 'ath0' when there are no references to ath0 in
> my /etc/conf.d/net?  Both wpa_cli and wpa_gui seem to work fine when I
> define -iwlan1 on the CLI.

Did you use ath0 in the past? Maybe this name has been stored in udev- 
rules.

I would suggest `grep -R ath0 /etc`

I'm pretty sure that ath0 was used when I first used madwifi 2 or 3  
years ago, but had changed to wlan0 the next time I tried it.

Stroller.