No ifconfig nor Iwconfig

wasabi0503 · 03-27-2006, 12:46 AM

I'm having issues trying to call iwconfig to setup my linksys wireless card. I've already installed NDISWRAPPER and the network manager sees it. However, since my network uses WPA.. i can't configure the password. I've already configured WPA supplicant as well. I am also logged in as root when i try using both iwconfig and ifconfig..

any help is appreciated.

jschiwal · 03-27-2006, 01:41 AM

Iwconfig probably comes from the wireless-tools package.
run "rpm -q --all --filesbypkg | grep iwconfig" to check for sure.
rpm -q --all --filesbypkg | grep iwconfig
wireless-tools /usr/sbin/iwconfig
wireless-tools /usr/share/man/man8/iwconfig.8.gz
km_wlan /usr/src/kernel-modules/rt2400/docs/iwconfig_usage.txt

I can't imagine /sbin/ifconfig not being installed. The package is probably called net-tools.
I'm hedging a bit because the names of some packages may be different in SuSE then in Fedora Core.

wasabi0503 · 03-28-2006, 12:23 AM

thanks, i appreciated that, the grep search command found it. it ended up being in sbin.