Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog108.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.199]:57972 "EHLO na3sys009aog108.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932751Ab1JZMSL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:18:11 -0400 Received: by mail-qw0-f41.google.com with SMTP id c11so1438742qad.28 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:18:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <201110251910.37638.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> <4EA70429.8070505@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:18:10 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20111026_141815_675359_9F2D3F40) Subject: Re: How to find the phy's associated with a wireless dev From: "Divinsky, Yonatan" To: David Goodenough Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Mariana Gambande wrote: > > Hello Davis, > Maybe is easier for you to create an udev rule to rename your wireless > devices always the same way. An example: > > file /etc/udev/rules.d/wireless-devices.rules: > > KERNEL=="phy*", SYSFS{address}=="00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", NAME="phy0" > KERNEL=="phy*", SYSFS{address}=="00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", NAME="phy1" > > You can see more information here > http://www.science.uva.nl/research/air/wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames?show_comments=1 > > This works fine for me :) > > > 2011/10/25 Ben Greear > > > > 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 > > If your kernel does not support it you could just do: iw phy | grep -o -m1 -e 'phy[0-9]' Thanks, Yoni > > > Thanks, > > Ben > > > > > >> > >> David > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > >> More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > > -- > > Ben Greear > > Candela Technologies Inc ?http://www.candelatech.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html