Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > On Tue, 05 May 2015 15:10:02 +0200 > David Wright <deb...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150505202606.GA13802@alum