Re: Wi-Fi Interface Question

2009-10-30 Thread John W. Linville 
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:17:09PM -0400, Martin Dubuc wrote:
 How is it possible to figure out what driver is associated with which
 interface. We used to have some of this information available in
 /sys/config/hwconf. I am especially interested to know details of Wi-Fi
 interfaces (for instance ath5k or iwlagn).

2.6.33 will introduce ethtool support for mac80211-based wireless
devices (which is most of them).

Prior to that, 'ls -l /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver' is at least
minimally informative.

Hth!

John
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Re: Wi-Fi Interface Question

2009-10-29 Thread Peter Jones 
On 10/29/2009 01:17 PM, Martin Dubuc wrote:
 How is it possible to figure out what driver is associated with which
 interface. We used to have some of this information available in
 /sys/config/hwconf. I am especially interested to know details of Wi-Fi
 interfaces (for instance ath5k or iwlagn).

lshal will show this info, among mountains of other data.

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