Package: wireless-tools
Version: 27-1
Severity: normal
# ip l s dev dummy0 up
# ip l s dummy0 name --help
# ip l l --help
6: --help: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff... oops, how do I change/list the device parameters with iwonfig/iwlist (I know dummy0 is not a wireless device, but I let's neglect this for now, OK)? # iwconfig -- --help Error : unrecognised wireless request "--help" # iwlist -- --help iwlist: unknown command `--help' -- both interpret `--' as a normal interface name. The problem is more severe then it seems at the first glance: At the very moment, I'm trying to write a portable script that will check for a device of a given name being present on a system. The admin could have set the device name to virtually anything, using ip(8), but ip isn't present on most systems, and in fact it could have been removed after the device name change, even on this system. I have no way at all to access this device, from a shell script. Note ifconfig has exactly the same problem (which makes things worse). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-jan Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2 (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Versions of packages wireless-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libiw27 27-1 Wireless tools - library -- no debconf information -- )^o-o^| jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .v K e-mail: jjminar FastMail FM ` - .' phone: +44(0)7981 738 696 \ __/Jan icq: 345 355 493 __|o|__Minář irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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