Subject: Re: [Gllug] joining a wireless LAN

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Mon Sep 6 08:59:18 UTC 2004


john gennard wrote:
> Firstly, I don't have the 'iwconfig' command available and I can't
> find which package provides it. Hence I don't know if any driver is 
> loaded - I doubt, however, if one is. I looked through the .config
> file for the kernel and nothing relevant is obvious to me. 

To find which package contains a file, you can go to

http://packages.debian.org

And choose "Search the contents of packages"

If you search for iwconfig, you'll see that it's in the package 
"wireless-tools".  You can just apt-get install this.

Cheers,

Doug.


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