Michal Jaegermann (michal@harddata.com) said:
At least in theory you should be able to give some "non-weird" and a fixed name to your wireless interface in /etc/mactab. Check 'man nameif' for a description. I did not test that but various scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts make an impression that they try to take /etc/mactab into consideration.
Surely you can get that if you will force a run of 'nameif' early enough in a boot sequence but this means some extra startup scripts and likely is not needed at all.
nameif:
- doesn't handle collisions among names (just dies with -EEXIST) - fails really badly on devices that create both eth0 and wifi0 (can change the wrong device)
Bill