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Re: [debian-knoppix] enhancement for wlcardconfig ?



On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:57:38PM +0100, Florent BERANGER wrote:
>   Hello everyone, 
>  
> some wireless cards, supported by Linux aren't detected by wlcardconfig in 
> Knoppix. 
> I made the following patch, applied into Flonix distro, in order to detect 
> more devices : 
>  
> old : 
> WLDEVICES=`grep -v "|" /proc/net/wireless | awk -F: '{print $1}'` 
>  
> new : 
> iwconfig > $TMP 
> WLDEVICES=`cat $TMP | grep 802.11 | awk -F" " '{print $1}'` 

WLDEVICES="$(iwconfig 2>/dev/null | awk '/802\.11/{print $1}')"

looks more correct, plus saves you a temporary file. I have not tried
this yet, though. Is the output of iwconfig reliable? What about wlan-ng
devices?

Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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