Re: ifconfig and iwconfig

From: Martin Tessun (martin.tessun-NOSPAM_at_t-online.de)
Date: 09/13/03


Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:13:00 +0200

John Smith wrote:
> If I run ifconfig I can se just the loopback, but if I use iwconfig I see
> lo; wlan0 and eth0, trying to configure the using iwconfig e.g. iwconfig
> wlan0 essid any, give the error message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device"
> Any ideas?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Jon
>
>

For WLAN have a look at the SuSE sdb at
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wavelan.html

HTH,
Martin

P.S.: By the way: The command you mean is ifconfig not iwconfig.

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