On Tuesday 07 of June 2011 23:47:35 Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi Marek, > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Marek Otahal <markotahal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Since net-tools are going to be abandoned (I was wondering how i "misuninstalled" the package), what do i use as an alternative to ifconfig? I use wicd or manually bring LAN up, and it occurred to me network interfaces failed due to missing ifconfig command. What is the new one? > > The new one is "ip", found in the iproute2 package. > > I didn't mention this explicitly, as this upgrade is not supposed to > remove net-tools, so in principle ifconfig should still work. > > Cheers, > > Tom > Patrick, Tom, thank you both for explanation. net-tools weren't installed as explicit, so some upgrade removed them from my system. I'll test if eg wicd can handle just 'ip' now. Thank you, cheers, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)
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