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This package is mentioned quite often on the forums and the IRC channel because using it is very convenient. New packages are released pretty much every day. Debian puts these autogenerated udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_les. Compat-wireless is a package which contains the development and stable versions (pulled from the kernel's git repository) of the in-kernel wireless drivers and the mac80211 wireless stack. If you delete the generated rename rules, it should create the correct ones on the next boot. Then the real interface is created, udev sees that it has already renamed an interface with that MAC and gives it the wlan0_rename name. The old udev rule, which keys on the MAC addres, may rename it to device names like eth3, for example. This happens because master interface has the same MAC address as the real interface, and it is created first. You may also end up with master device names such as eth3, when this was actually intended to be named wmaster0. On distribution releases with old udev rules you may end up with strange network device names, for example, wlan0_rename. If possible we will try to hide it from users later. The master device is an internal master device used only by mac80211. Wlan0 The wmaster0 device is what we call the master device. If you simply are not sure you can use, just reboot the box. If you know what module you need you can simply load the module using modprobe.

We provide a mechanism to unload all old and legacy drivers first so you should run to be sure:īefore loading modules you must first unload your old wireless subsystem modules. Note also that broadcom, zydas, and atheros devices have old legacy drivers which you need to be sure are removed first. Since you might be replacing your old mac80211 drivers you should first try to unload all existing mac80211 and related drivers. This nukes our changes to updates/ so you can go back to using your distribution's supported drivers. We use the updates/ directory so your distribution's drivers are left intact.

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