wireless networking - halfway solved

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Anthony Simm wrote:

>> If it made a WPA connection, you are set.  The output of 'ifconfig'
>> shows some information on how it connected.
>
> ifconfig now gives
>
> ipw0: flags=8802<POINTTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> ether 00:0c:f1:5e:4c:58
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11b
> status: associated

It would be in the section about wlan0.  wlan0 is a virtual device that 
controls the hardware device, ipw0 in this case.