Want to quickly and easily find more information about your wireless card? Well, there are all sorts of ways to do this. I think we've covered a few ways already, but this one might be the easiest.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Today's article is all about your wireless connection...
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Terminal Velocity
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I have no wireless connection currently so the commands return nothing, but I like network related topics, keep it up
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Really, Debian? Really?!? Of all the OG software to remove, Debian - the slow moving distro - removed iwconfig?
Well, at least I included how to confirm that it's installed.
It reminds of ifconfig being replaced by ip. I have a hunch that the two are related and that nobody told me about it.
I have a Debian forum account. I'm going to go yell angrily at them. (Not really. Thanks for the info.)
I suspect folks can still install it if they need to. I'll try to think of a good edit for the article.
I was also surprised. I checked at:
It's still possible to install iwconfig one way or another, and it will provide the info specified in the article, but I guess users would be more inclined to just go with what the package manager can access.
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That means I'm going to have to learn the iw application. It's installed in Mint but not Lubuntu and appears to have far fewer features.
The debian manpage on iw is terse, to say the least, but there's lots of info here:
en:users:documentation:iw [Linux Wireless]
wireless.wiki.kernel.org
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The debian manpage on iw is terse, to say the least, but there's lots of info here:
en:users:documentation:iw [Linux Wireless]
Thanks!
Yeah, there's not much to it anymore. I suppose they want us to use some other tools.
I don't tend to naysay progress, so I won't do so this time. My default assumption is that the people making these decisions know far more about Linux than I do. So, I stick with that...
