Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com):
> On Tue, 05 May 2015 15:10:02 +0200
> David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > What do /sbin/iwconfig and /sbin/ifconfig show?
> 
> ^?ELF^B
[...]

Perhaps I wasn't clear!

iwconfig and ifconfig are programs that you run. Because /sbin isn't
in the user's $PATH, you need to prefix with the pathname.

You might see output like

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"foo"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 44:...
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=69/70  Signal level=-41 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:59   Missed beacon:0

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

and

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:101396 (99.0 KiB)  TX bytes:101396 (99.0 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:...
          inet addr:192.168.1.15  Bcast:192.168.1.255
          Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80.../64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:481394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:393808 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:362857903 (346.0 MiB)  TX bytes:61878630 (59.0 MiB)

Cheers,
David.