Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:46:17 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Are you sure? :-)
>
> I'm only aware of two ways for setting up ethernet network interfaces
> (today) in Linux systems: one if using the old method (ifup/ifconfig) and
> other is using networkmanager. And both are not Debian-centric, I've also
> used them in openSUSE, for instance.
I think you may be confusing 'ifconfig / iwconfig' and ifupdown. The
former are *nix standard tools; the latter is a Debian-specific package
that contains the utilities ifup / ifdown, which work with the
file /etc/network/interfaces to manipulate network interfaces. IIUC,
this is a higher level interface which calls ifconfig / iwconfig /
wpa_supplicant / dhclient and other lower level utilities to do the
actual work.
> Anyway, whatever method is proposed by iw devels should be docummented so
> users and distributions can adapt it to their needs, don't you think?
iw is documented quite nicely:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
Celejar
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