wusb54g showing as eth1

[bmr5770]

Under breezy, my usb wireless adapter Linksys WUSB54G using ndiswrapper worked fine.

I did a clean install of dapper from the live cd using a hard wired connection.

I installed the linksys drivers with ndiswrapper but the problem I get is that the system keeps seeing it as eth1 instead of wlan0. The alias file in the /etc/modprobe.d path appears correct (showing wlan0).

When it is eth1, I cannot give it any commands via iwconfig. I managed to get it to become wlan0 (and got it running) once when I unplugged the adapter, removed/reinstalled the ndiswrapper driver but it didn't stick after a reboot.

I'm guessing there's a conf file somewhere that says my adapter = eth1.

Anyone know where/how to fix this?

UPDATE: I saw in another thread about adding a bcm line to the blacklist. All this did was make my wireless show up as eth2

[sky]

Re: wusb54g showing as eth1

Hi,

You should be able to change it in the file /etc/iftab
Set in a line with
eth0 macaddress
with eth0 the name you want,
macaddress the mac address of the interface you want to fix the name...

Hope it helped

[bmr5770]

Re: wusb54g showing as eth1

nope that didn't work The system simply refuses to use ndiswrappers alias of wlan0. And for some reason, unless it is wlan, it simply will not accept a key. iwconfig eth1 essid/mode commands work fine - but the key won't go through.

Anyone have any idea what's going on?

[bmr5770]

Re: wusb54g showing as eth1

Update:

I've found that if the wusb54g is plugged in when the system boots, it will not let go of being eth1. However, if I boot with it unplugged, login and *then* connect it, it will show up as wlan0.

Is this perhaps a bug in the boot process?