Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Mon, 19 May 2008 14:16:08 +0200 |
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> Instead of testing for wireless/, best thing would probably be to call > SIOCGIWRANGE on the device and if it returns EOPNOTSUP then it's not > wireless. Some drivers may have to load firmware to figure out > supported rates and encryption capabilities, but to be honest, NM does > this to detect wireless devices and I haven't run into any issues in 4 > years using it. If there are issues with drivers, then we need to fix > the driver too.
I was about to propose calling SIOCGIWNAME since that is what wireless-tools do and that linux/wireless.h indicates.
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