2 wifi devices on 3.5.1 ??

[dansawyer]

All,

Inserting an 802.11b CF card creates 2 wifi devices:

wlan0
wifi0

They are both up; however only one seems active and appears to be working ok. How can one be removed??

Dan

[Hrw]

hostap-modules will always give you two interfaces.

Look at https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...=40&#entry42834 for more info

[krischan]

I have the same problem with OZ 3.5.2 Opie 1.1.7

After insertion of my Asus Spacelink WL-110 in my Zaurus 5500G there are two activated devices: wifi0 and wlan0.
The device wlan0 only work if wifi0 is stopped, wlan0 is restarted and reconfigured. Unfortunately this have to be done after suspend-mode too.

The device wifi0 can not be deleted an is not there when the WLAN-Card is unplugged.

WEP is not enabled in my network.

Is there any solution or workaround?

[Hrw]

OZ 3.5.x use HostAP.
HostAP gives TWO interfaces
User should use ONE of them and IGNORE second.

What is hard to understand?

From HostAP FAQ:

6. Why did I get two network interfaces (wlan0 and wifi0) even when I have
   only one wireless card?

Host AP driver supports multiple virtual interfaces per wireless
card. wifi0 is the master radio interface and wlan0 is the first
virtual interface for this radio. Other virtual interfaces are wlan0ap
(for hostapd), and one interface per WDS link.

In most cases, one should ignore wifi0 interface and just use wlan0
interface. In other words, assign IP address to wlan0, not wifi0 and
in general, just ignore the wifi0 interface.