Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network
On 2023-05-13 23:00:23 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 13 May 2023 at 18:18:57 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > On 5/13/23 15:40, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 08:29:11PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > > > > Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years.
> > > >
> > > > It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential.
> > >
> > > I don't know what Debian's official stance is, but if you do web searches
> > > for "Linux ifconfig deprecated", you find MANY results.
> > >
> > > <https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ifconfig-vs-ip>:
> > > The ip command is the future of network config commands. ifconfig
> > > has been officially deprecated for the ip suite, so while many of
> > > us are still using the old ways, it is time to put those habits to
> > > rest and move on with the world.
> >
> > While you are correct, Greg, the lack of documentation to help with
> > that transition is staggering. They just thru it on the table and
> > didn't even say use this instead.
>
> From the way you have quoted, I don't know whether you're complaining
> specifically about redhat, but as far as Debian is concerned, it was
> well documented in the Release Notes for stretch:
>
> 5.1.3. Noteworthy obsolete packages
>
> The following is a list of known and noteworthy obsolete packages
> (see Section 4.8, “Obsolete packages” for a description).
>
> The list of obsolete packages includes:
>
> [ … ]
>
> * The net-tools package is being deprecated in favor of
> iproute2. See Section 5.3.9, “net-tools will be deprecated in
> favor of iproute2” or the Debian reference manual (https://
> www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05#
> _the_low_level_network_configuration) for more information.
>
> [ … ]
>
> 5.3.9. net-tools will be deprecated in favor of iproute2
>
> The net-tools package is no longer part of new installations by
> default, since its priority has been lowered from important to
> optional.
[...]
Under Debian/unstable, i.e. more much recent than stretch:
zira:~> dpkg -s net-tools
Package: net-tools
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
[...]
This is still priority important!
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