On 2023-05-13 10:47:33 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/13/23 06:04, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-05-13 17:56:48 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > On 13/5/23 17:51, Nicolas George wrote: > > > > Also, ifconfig has nothing to do with wireless, so it was a red herring > > > > from the start. > > > > > > wlan0 is an interface like any other and ifconfig works with it > > > > For me, since the wireless interface is wlp61s0: > > > > zira:~> ifconfig wlp61s0 list countries > > list: Unknown host > > ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information. > > > > What you gave is unknown to ifconfig. > > > So also is wlan0 or any other name that may have been assigned to the radio. > Radio's are unk to ifconfig today. So it is worthless to the OP.
This isn't related to the radio. This is a syntax issue. See the "ifconfig --help" output: there is no such thing as "list", whatever the interface. Hence the "list: Unknown host", because ifconfig thinks that "list" is a hostname. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
