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
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