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 <markota...@gmail.com> 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
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Marek Otahal :o)

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