Tenda W311U and Debian

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu May 6 19:45:01 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:10:57AM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> And ... problem solved!
> 
> "ifconfig -a" showed that the interface was there but called "wlan1"
> because the netbook already has an onboard wireless card.  All I had
> to do was "ifconfig wlan1 up" and we're away.
> 
> After 15 years of using Linux, it's the staggering array of command
> line switches I _don't_ know that really kill me.  This one I hope to
> remember.  Thanks again Lennart.

Of course since ifconfig is deprecated (good riddance), 'ip link' would
be a better command to remember.

Other options you could have used include:
cat /proc/net/dev
ls /sys/class/net/
ls /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/
etc...

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