Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:55:39 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:55:39 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:26:23 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) It basically documents the most common operations done from iw. Yes, I know I can do it manually, I was looking for the same kind of alias that wireless-tools provided. If

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:26:23 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) It basically documents the most common operations done from iw. Yes, I know I can do it manually, I was looking for the same kind of

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:31:17 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) I want to be able to write the iw equivalient of:- iface wlan0 inet static wireless-essid Test wireless-channel 7 Given that iwconfig is now deprecated Okay,

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@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

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@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

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:46:17 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:31:17 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:31:17 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: ...

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:16:00 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:46:17 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:18:20 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) 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

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:18:20 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) AFAIK, ifupdown is a Debian specific package - kernel devs are hardly responsible for documenting it. Are you sure? :-) I'm

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:45:57 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:16:00 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:46:17 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:17:38 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) Let me ask you again... what specific setup configuration options are you missing from the current available tools to setting up your wireless adapters in Debian? It is possible to

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:19:58 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:45:57 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) 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

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Oct 2011 at 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw. Is there a package that provides

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: On Tue 25 Oct 2011 at 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw.

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread Brian
On Wed 26 Oct 2011 at 18:38:33 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: iw does not integrate with ifupdown yet. Please see the README.Debian for the iw package. Its a shame that 3 years (its dates 30th Oct 2008) later nothing has moved. I'd have a shot at

Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-25 Thread David Goodenough
In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw. Is there a package that provides network/interfaces support for iw? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw. Is there a package that provides

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw.