Finding Wireless Network Adapters

by Mar 17, 2014

There are many ways of finding network adapters, but apparently none to identify active wireless adapters.

All information about your network adapters can be found right in the Registry, and here is a one-liner that provides all the information you may need:

The interesting part is the MediaSubType value. Wireless adapters always are marked with a MediaSubType of 2.

So this line will always return wireless adapters only:

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