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  wifi bgn identification "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-07-26 01:30 +0200
    Re: wifi bgn identification Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-07-26 02:00 +0200
      Re: wifi bgn identification "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-07-26 02:30 +0200
        Re: wifi bgn identification Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-07-26 03:20 +0200
        Re: wifi bgn identification Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-07-26 03:30 +0200
          Re: wifi bgn identification "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2020-07-26 04:00 +0200

#225277 — wifi bgn identification

With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?

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#225279

> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
> whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?

`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.


        Stefan

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#225280

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
>> whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?
>
>`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.

I do not find that command.  I did find "ip show", but it does not
provide the b/g/n category.

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#225283

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
>>> whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?
>>`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.
> I do not find that command.  I did find "ip show", but it does not
> provide the b/g/n category.

It's in the `iw` package (according to `dpkg -S =iw`),


        Stefan

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#225284

Hello,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:05:23AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.
> 
> I do not find that command.

    $ apt-file search --regexp bin/iw$
    iw: /sbin/iw
    $ apt show iw
    Package: iw
    Version: 5.0.1-1
    Priority: optional
    Section: net
    Maintainer: Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org>
    Installed-Size: 263 kB
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7)
    Recommends: crda
    Breaks: aircrack-ng (<< 1:1.0~rc2-1)
    Replaces: aircrack-ng (<< 1:1.0~rc2-1)
    Homepage: https://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
    Tag: hardware::TODO, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
     network::configuration, role::program, use::configuring
    Download-Size: 87.9 kB
    APT-Sources: http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
    Description: tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
     This package contains the `iw' tool which allows you to configure and show
     information about wireless networking.
     .
     In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless
     configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required. See
     /usr/share/doc/iw/README.Debian for a more detailed overview of iw.

Possibly you do have "iw" installed but did not find it because
"/sbin" is not in your user's PATH.

Cheers,
Andy

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#225286

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 01:19:44AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>Possibly you do have "iw" installed but did not find it because
>"/sbin" is not in your user's PATH.

Yes; that was the problem.  Thanks.

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