[GLLUG] Wireless Device Names

[Karl Schuttler]

iwconfig will typically reveal the name of any identified (driver
available) wireless interfaces, ifconfig -a for non-wireless.

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was helping Ben configure wireless on one of his laptops on Monday. (Yes,
> we met behind your backs.)  The laptop uses an Intel Pro Wireless chip, and
> a Broadcom Ethernet chip.  When we tried to bring up wlan0, if failed.
> Luckily, an internet search provided an example of configuring one using the
> device name eth1.  That surprised me, but it worked.
>
> Now to my question.  Is there some way to determine, from information on the
> PC itself and the installed programs, what the name of the wireless (or any)
> device is needed?  I searched through dmesg for the basename of the driver,
> ipw2200, and it found several lines, but none of them specified a device
> name.  The dmesg lines for the Ethernet device did show it at eth0.  Does it
> requure searching through the source code of the driver, or perhaps the
> kernel, to tell what name a device responds to?
> --
>
>                                Chick
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