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Titus

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From: Izmir

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 120

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iwconfig

i am triyng to install my wireless card in my asus laptop, i have ipw2200 and i all done http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … nd_ipw2200 this but when i enter

iwconfig

command it returns the interface as eth0, but eth0 is my defult ethernet interface and now i am using it and connect to internet.

can you please explain what's happening?

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Titus

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From: Izmir

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 120

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Re: iwconfig

my iwconfig is:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"www.aytash.com USA" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:14:BF:CB:50:A2   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0 
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=15/100  Signal level=-84 dBm  Noise level=-85 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:79

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

and my ifconfig is:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:F0:4E:37:4A 
          inet6 addr: fe80::212:f0ff:fe4e:374a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1065 (1.0 Kb)  TX bytes:8888 (8.6 Kb)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x8000 Memory:fe8fe000-fe8fefff

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:D8:D2:80:E4 
          inet addr:10.0.0.9  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:d8ff:fed2:80e4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:385497 (376.4 Kb)  TX bytes:89308 (87.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2400

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

do you se something wrong with my configuration.

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: iwconfig

what's wrong is the fact that alot of wireless modules name themselves 'ethX' (ETHernet.... *sigh*)

It just so happens that udev loads these things in an arbitrary order, so the names flip flop - see the udev wiki for more details.

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