On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <[email protected]> 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 -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
