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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:16:57 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Detecting a wireless interface
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110131011160.37432@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokBFUBEdWkUxyqpSCUt6igMpfhfVuPPgs8sBM%2BH-kcrCg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I can't think of anything, sorry. You may have to write a command line
> app that does a net80211 ioctl to see, or maybe there's a way to query
> the media type to tell you whether it's wifi or not.

Hadn't looked at it before, but parsing ifconfig output is what was used 
already (bsdinstall netconfig, in this case).  I just reused it:
   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161547



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