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Re: Ralink

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 03:33:48PM +0200, Xan wrote:
> En/na Gaudenz Steinlin ha escrit:
> Okay. Thanks.
> With ifconfig -a, it appears. But I have two new interfaces. How can I  
> see what modules use any of these?
>
> ifconfig -a  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:39:8a:77:7e      
>     inet addr:172.26.0.2  Bcast:172.26.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::218:39ff:fe8a:777e/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:1298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:1015 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>          RX bytes:98030 (95.7 KiB)  TX bytes:218310 (213.1 KiB)
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback          inet addr:127.0.0.1  
> Mask:255.0.0.0
>          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)
>
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:5a:4e:29:3d          
> BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)a

This is the wireless interface. You have to use this one for all
operations.

>
> wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr  
> 00-80-5A-4E-29-3D-02-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00          BROADCAST 
> MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> What is ralink: wmaster0 or wlan0. Why I have two new interfaces?

The wmaster0 interface is an internal interface created by the linux
wireless stack. Just ignore it for all normal operations. 

Gaudenz

>
> Thanks a lot,
> Xan.
>
>
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