Ok, so I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but haven't gotten around to it. My internal wireless card on my laptop went kaput (not sure why). Luckily, my mom had an extra Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA laying around, so she just gave me that. It's a great card, with native linux kernel support (no config neccessary). It works perfectly, but there's one little minor annoyance: it reports back as two adapters for the same card. Just to illustrate, here's my iwconfig output:
It looks the same as you might see if you had two wireless adapters installed (I cut out the loopback interface and the wired connection, FYI), but this is the same adapter. When I setup wireless, or do anything with my net interface really, eth2 works, wifi0 doesn't. Any ideas here? It's not affecting my performance, and everything works, but it annoys the crap out of me. The one thing that DOESN'T seem to work because of it is that the wireless network manager on Feisty Fawn seems confused by it. Not a huge deal, since I don't use it anyway, but I'd like to test it at least. Thanks! -olly
Code:
eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"dlink"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:15:E9:D3:C5:72
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=73/100 Signal level=-59 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:14459 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:10 Invalid misc:43422 Missed beacon:17
wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"dlink"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:15:E9:D3:C5:72
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=73/100 Signal level=-59 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:14459 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:10 Invalid misc:43422 Missed beacon:17
