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Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Wireless Interfaces

I have an Intel PRO Wireless 3945 PCIe card installed.  I also have a Realtek RTL8169 Gigabit ethernet card.  The ethernet card is 'eth0' but the ipw3945 shows up as 'eth2':

[n00b@archlinux ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"ShagNet"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:4D:3C:DC:E2
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm
          Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=92/100  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-42 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:1  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:9   Missed beacon:0

But what is 'eth1' doing there??

medicated

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From: Storm Lake, IA

Registered: 2005-03-11

Posts: 79

Re: Wireless Interfaces

If you have firewire, your system may be detecting it as a network capable interface.