06/08/2008 12:54 - heavytull :
> I just installed slack12.1 on a computer from naught.
> I mean this is not an update from a previous version of slack.
> And i noticed some new things that i have never seen on my own
> slack12.1 laptop. actually on my laptop i installed at first slack
> 10.2 and upgraded to 11.0-12.0-12.1
>
> among the new things is the boot slack logo instead of the old lilo
> interface.

You must have kept the old config file.

> wireless interface is named wlan0 while on my laptop it is eth1.
>
> I would like to know from which file this network interface took its
> name.
> i grepped 'wlan0' all files in /etc/rc.d on both computers and found
> no difference.

Udev gives name to interfaces. See /etc/udev/rules.d/... Have a look
especially at 75-persistent-net-generator.rules