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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Debian Wireless

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:43:54AM -0400, Sebastien Bailard wrote:
> I was wondering, how do you find out what the name of the interface that 
> corresponds to your new network device?  How do you know your wireless card 
> is eth2, and not wlan0, or ath0?

You can figure this out by running:

/sbin/iwconfig

Only the wireless cards will report back the information.  The name of
the device depends on the driver.  i.e., for the intersil chipset in my
laptop the device is ethX if I use the orinoco driver and wlanX if I use
the hostAP driver.

mh

> 
> Technical details:
> I have a new LInksys Wireless-G Portable USB Adapter, version 4.  It has the 
> RT2500USB chipset, I'm running Debian (newest Kanotix), with 
> 2.6.11-kanotix-11.  I needed to get the ural driver from:
> http://etudiants.insia.org/~jbobbio/ural-linux/
> I installed it using 
> %make
> %su
> #make install
> #modprobe ural.
> which created a new module in /lib/modules/....
> 
> dmesg doesn't complain, and says it brings up ural to run the thing, but I 
> don't know how to actually use it to connect.  I think it's working, or can 
> work, but I don't know how to command it to _connect_.  Add to that Kanotix 
> doesn't set up the ifup/ifdown scripts, and a blithe mention of something 
> called wpa_supplicant.  (I'm used to pain and suffering trying to get 
> wireless cards working with Debian, but this little trick, playing invisible, 
> was unexpected.)
> 
> -Sebastien
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