Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:31:17 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote:
...
> >> Okay, I will have to ask... who has told you that? "wireless-tools"
> >> package is still available in Debian and he upstream project is just on
> >> the way to replace it but they are still needed in some cases.
>
> > If you ask anything about iwconfig on the wireless kernel mailing list
> > you will get told that iwconfig is deprecated, does not provide all the
> > function and at times give the wrong answers and that iw should be used
> > on all mac80211 based wireless drivers. They wrote it, so they should
> > know.
>
> Then why not ask them for a recommended replacement? If that's "iw" then
> ask for the documents on how to properly setup when using "ifup" method ;-)
AFAIK, ifupdown is a Debian specific package - kernel devs are hardly
responsible for documenting it.
Celejar
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