I went to my Sony laptop with F7 on it and got the results of doing a
ifconfig and a iwconfig. As you see the iwconfig results has more
information. In fact the ifconfig data may actually be false.
l ifconfig
[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:9B:1C:AD:D7
inet addr:10.0.0.100 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:9bff:fe1c:add7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:132079 (128.9 KiB) TX bytes:15757 (15.3 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:E7:C6:33
UP 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)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xec00
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:8707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:74732300 (71.2 MiB) TX bytes:74732300 (71.2 MiB)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-0E-9B-1C-AD-D7-48-21-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1922 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:12
TX packets:366 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:290547 (283.7 KiB) TX bytes:30231 (29.5 KiB)
Interrupt:11
[karl@k5di ~]$
iwconfig
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"default" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:15:E9:13:51:B6
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=59/94 Signal level=-36 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:187 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
[root@localhost ~]#
I wonder why iwconfig says there is no wireless extentions to wifi.0?
Karl
