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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:47:05 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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To: David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to find the phy's associated with a wireless dev
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On 10/25/2011 11:10 AM, David Goodenough wrote:
> I notice that if I remove the kernel module for a wireless
> interface and reload it, that a new phy is defined.  This is
> confusing my script that sets up interfaces, in particular I
> need to set the distance for a long distance link and that has
> to be done on the phy not the dev.
>
> I am doing this from a script so I guess it has to be a query
> using iw, but I can not see which one to use.

On a recent kernel:
cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/phy80211/name

Thanks,
Ben


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