Hardware Reference
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bone#
iwconfig
wlan0 unassociated Nickname:"WIFI@REALTEK"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point:
Not-Associated
Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
usb0 no wireless extensions.
If no name appears, try
ifconfig -a
:
bone#
ifconfig -a
...
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 92:84:3f:a2:12:0f
inet addr:192.168.7.2 Bcast:192.168.7.3
Mask:255.255.255.252
inet6 addr: fe80::9084:3fff:fea2:120f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6401357 (6.1 MiB) TX bytes:842982 (823.2 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:ef:d0:27:04
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)
When you find the WiFi device name (mine is
wlan0
), remember it for later.
Run
wicd-curses
to display the wireless networks your WiFi device is seeing:
