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Re: how to find the device name of my wireless card

On 10/05/2010 03:53 AM, Long Wind wrote:

I have aironet 350 pci wireless card
Which command can show the device name of the wireless card?

Here is a list by iwconfig:

eth4      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"tsunami"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-113 dBm  Noise level=-98 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"tsunami"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-113 dBm  Noise level=-98 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



Hi,
it is "lspci" -list all your PCI devices and if your card is connected with usb than type "lsusb" -it list USB devices. 

In my case it looks like this:
$ lspci
...
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05) 

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