debian from ethernet to wifi

[Jude DaShiell]

The wlan0 address got renamed to wlan2 for some reason.

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 12:49:26
> From: Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com>
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> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: debian from ethernet to wifi
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> Hmmm, that could be right. It seems to me that there have been times when I had a wlan0 but not the right driver loaded but I know that sounds contradictory so I'll have to think about it a bit.
>
>> On Sep 12, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>
>>> I've been doing some work over here and discovered a few things. dmesg|grep -in wlan returned wlan0 as a broadcom device so I installed broadcom-sta-common with recommended packages I'm not sure if connecting the wifi adapter helped or not but will find out shortly.
>>
>> I'd guess that if you have a wlan0 device, the correct driver has already been loaded.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Geoff.
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