Re: nm-applet suddenly offers no options

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Peter Flynn wrote:
> No, all wireless cards I have ever seen automatically create a wifi0 
> *and* a wlan0 device when you insert them (this is a PCMCIA card). 
> Before using Ubuntu, I'd never seen or heard of ath0. I'm unclear why 
> wifi cards need two devices, but they're always present any machine I've 
> seen.

ath0 is from MadWifi, after the "Atheros" chipset. I'm not sure if other
cards now use it too, but this is what I've seen so far.
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