From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:52:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172602341.3291.8.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E4769E.2040102@candelatech.com>
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:21 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> Regardless of the name, it would be nice to have some quick way to
> determine
> if a network device is wireless or not. This could be an IOCTL, something
> in /proc/ or similar. Even if you name them to be wlanX by default, folks
> can rename them, so applications that care about the type of the network
> device can't key off of names reliably...
iwconfig can do it using ioctl. Shell scripts can do it using
"wireless" directory in sysfs:
for i in /sys/class/net/*; do
if test -d $i/wireless; then
echo `basename $i`
fi
done
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 4:06 Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix Alex Davis
2007-02-25 4:30 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-02-25 4:39 ` Larry Finger
2007-02-26 23:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27 1:33 ` John W. Linville
2007-02-27 10:16 ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-27 17:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27 18:21 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-27 18:52 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2007-02-27 19:15 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-27 18:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-28 1:25 ` John W. Linville
2007-02-28 8:51 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-28 16:44 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-28 16:50 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-28 16:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-28 16:55 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-28 18:35 ` John W. Linville
2007-02-28 19:21 ` Jouni Malinen
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