i'm not sure if this is relevant as I've never used a usb wireless adapter, but I would assume that when you plug a usb device in, it gets reported in some logfile with all the relevant information as to the newly created device and some of its properties. I think its /var/log/messages, but as I'm on a mac right now I cant double check. On 8/15/05, Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux mailing list > > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > -- > Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >