[Voyage-linux] Voyage 0.3 - current (11/16) - Assignment of wifiX --> athX weirdness

[Edwin Whitelaw]

I've got a 233 MHz WRAP 2E running the 0.3 (Nov 16) release with 2 
Atheros cards, 1 CM9 and 1 WLM54G.

Everything loads fine and both cards are detected w/o errors, the CM9 
showing up as wifi0 and the WLM54G is wifi1.

The strangeness is that I cannot assign wifi0 to ath0 either through the 
interface file or running wlanconfig manually (wlanconfig returns ath0 
when executed but iwconfig subsequently shows it created as ath1).  If I 
map wifi0 to ath1 it loads perfectly.  I've tried this with only the CM9 
installed and also with the second card.  Oddly enough, with the second 
card installed, I can now assign wifi1 to ath0.

Why can I not map wifi0 --> ath0 and wifi1 --> ath1?

Obviously, I can make the current arrangement work fine but would like 
to know why the "cross" assignment works and where this is determined.  
I do not have the problem in 0.2.

BTW, it now seems that the hostname in 0.3 is set by editing 
/etc/hostname directly rather than using /ro/etc/hostname as was the 
case for 0.2.  Not a big deal, but different in any case.

Edwin