(Dapper) Changed interface name after wpa_supplicant upgrade

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'm not sure if they're connected, but there was just a
wpa_supplicant upgrade in Dapper, and now my wireless
interface is called eth1; it used to be eth0. This is quite
annoying: it means, among other things, that I have to
change a bunch of my scripts to use eth1 rather than eth0,
have to change /etc/default/wpasupplicant to apply to the
correct interface, have to modify /etc/network/interfaces to
apply the wireless-tools settings to the appropriate
interface, etc.

This happened once before, some months ago (probably during
the lead-up to Breezy's release). I'm not sure why it
happens. It is irritating, however. Any ideas on

a) why this happens, and
b) how to make it not happen?

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
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