The mystery of WiFi

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Thu Jan 3 10:02:38 UTC 2008


Mr.Scrooge wrote:

>> > Thanks for the response.
>> > But I always have NM off, as it does not work with all my devices,
>> > and I ran "service network restart" anyway without finding eth0.
>> >
> shouldn't a wireless interface come up as wlan0,ath0 not eth0? or does it
> depend on the driver? iwconfig should show you something, me thinks.

I think the interface does depend on the driver, as you suggest.
I was using orinoco_cs , and this brings up the interface eth?.

Also iwconfig would not show anything if eth0 did not come up.

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