When I plug in an USB network, it gets assigned a network name, like wlan1
by udev. Is there a way how to determine the mapping, without going through udev files, like /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
?
1 Answer
Use lshw
(install as needed). The command lshw -C Network
answers your question.
For example the usb network device connected at usb bus 2:1.5 (check lsusb -t
for more info on your usb tree) has logical name wlan0:
root@kali:~# lshw -C Network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2:1.5
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:60:64:37:4a:30
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.14-kali1-amd64 firmware=0.29 ip=10.0.0.4 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn