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Re: iBook G4 - Wireless



On 5/20/20 6:17 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 16:05, Mick Bert <MickBert@posteo.net> wrote:
>>
>> But when I type the command iwlist, it give me:*|
> 
> iwlist is for very old WEXT-based drivers, IIRC. For modern
> mac80211-based drivers (like b43) using the nl80211 configuration
> interface, you need to use iw.

Indeed. The last release of wireless-tools happened more than 10 years ago,
like net-tools, it's deprecated and should no longer be used.

I recommend using nmcli for network configuration on the command line, it's
convenient and supports everything that network-manager supports.

Adrian

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