Bug#697890: marked as done (installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin)
> From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>
> To: 697890-done@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#697890: installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:10:41 +0100
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
>
> Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont102@gmail.com):
> > On Fri 11 Jan 2013 at 15:36:27 +0100, jswmb01x wrote:
> >
> > > Then I started the xfce "network manager" (parameters -> network
> > > connections), filled in required information and wanted to check the
> > > status with iwconfig.
> > >
> > > Could only find this :
> > >
> > > root?
> > > root? find / -xdev -iname *iwconfig*
> > > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/iwconfig
> > > root?
> >
> > You will get iwconfig by installing the wireless-tools package; or you
> > could consider the alternative iw package.
> >
> > The Xfce task originally used wicd, not network-manager-gnome, and
> > wireless-tools came with it as a dependency.
>
>
> In short, adding Ben's answer, there is indeed no bug here.
What about Ben's hint, installing iw and crda with task-desktop?
Holger
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