[TriLUG] iwlist scanning

[Rick DeNatale]

On 7/21/05, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Pat Regan wrote:
> 
> > Are you using the orinoco_pci kernel module?
> 
> 
> orinoco_cs
> 
> it's pcmcia
> 
> > It is entirely possible your wireless card would be eth0 with this
> > driver, assuming either the wireless driver was loaded first or you have
> > no wired NIC.
> 
> there's no inbuilt NIC on this machine, so the wlan gets eth0

For what it's worth...

There's a command called ifrename which is part of Jean Tourrilhes
wireless tools package which gives control over how network interfaces
are named. It uses a file /etc/iftab which maps interfaces to names
based on descriptors. Usually the only descriptor is a mac address but
other criteria can be used as well.