Hi, Am Montag, 5. Januar 2004 22:29 schrieb Mailing:
Thanks but what you advised me I've already tested. I configured eth0 and DSL0 (by YAST modul) that's ok; after I've setup wlan0 correctly on my network and after I replaced eth0 with wlan0 .... but .... nothing.
I got this message from "/var/log/messages" ... ***** Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. unrecognized option 'wlan0' *****
I see. The problem is that pppd accepts ethX as a device but not wlanX. I believe the wlanX thing is specific to SUSE. There are good reasons for it (just try to set up a laptop with different network profiles for wlan and normal ethernet environment - which module is to be loaded for ethX becomes sort of random - this is much nicer with wlanX). I'm not sure we will stick to it though. At least as of now kernel 2.6 uses ethX for the wireless devices too. I don't know if there are any plans to introduce the wlanX interfaces to the 2.6 kernel. What could be done now is to either patch pppd to accept wlanX (shouldn't be too difficult I would guess) or to use a non-SUSE kernel that doesn't use wlanX.
My view is that SuSE limit DSL YaST modul with the ethX interface and does not allow us to use "hotplug" interfaces
It's not about the YaST2 DSL modul but about the device naming and pppds (missing) ability to accept wlanX as a device. Greetings from Bremen hartmut