'show interfaces description' not supported in packet tracer?

[vc10]

I am currently studying for my ccna and I am using packet tracer to do some labs. 

One thing I noticed is that 'show interfaces description' does not work on any device. I would like to be able to use commands properly the way they would work on a real router. I have tried installing and setting up gns3 but I can't seem to find the same routers and switches from packet tracer. Can you offer me any advice? 

I also noticed that descriptions do not show up on switches under the 'name' field when I run #show interfaces status.

If anyone could help me get these commands working in packet tracer, or point me in the right direction to use GNS3, I would greatly appreciate it.  

[cristianomiranda]

vc10 and All,

I've faced the same scenario and the way I found out to workaround it was using like this: show interface FastEthernet 4/0, but yes, some commands simply does not work or only half of it works, like "banner motd and banner login", nothing else.

R1-OSC#show interface Fas

R1-OSC#show interface FastEthernet 4/0

FastEthernet4/0 is up, line protocol is up (connected)

Hardware is Lance, address is 00e0.f7ad.4b0a (bia 00e0.f7ad.4b0a)

Description: Connection-OSC-MIAMI

Internet address is 192.168.10.1/24

MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,

reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255

Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set

Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, media type is RJ45

ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00,

Last input 00:00:08, output 00:00:05, output hang never

Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

Input queue: 0/75/0 (size/max/drops); Total output drops: 0

Queueing strategy: fifo

Output queue :0/40 (size/max)

5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer

Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort

0 input packets with dribble condition detected

0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns

0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets

0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred

0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier

0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

[Quenodius]

Same issue here. "Show interfaces description" will not work on routers in packet tracer. I've not used all the available routers, so I suppose it is possible I'm using an old router.
My work-around is to use "show running-config" to see all the interface's descriptions. Hope that helps.

P.S Use "show interfaces status" on switches to view interface descriptions.