With iwconfig and ifconfig you can enable e.g. monitor mode of your wireless card, while with ifupdown you won't be able to do that directly. ip command is a newer tool that works on top of netlink sockets , a new way to configure the kernel network stack from userspace (tools like ifconfig are built on top of ioctl system calls).

May 17, 2012 · sudo modprobe ndiswrapper sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "<My Network ID>" mode managed sudo wpa_cli identity "<My Network ID>" password "<My password>" I had the network set up by adding it in the wireless section of networking in the GUI, so that I could click on the wired or wireless network icon and select the wireless provider (which was ...

Jul 30, 2019 · iwconfig the wlan0 results with no wireless extensions. But if I write the command: iw wlan0 scan it works correctly! And it also works well if I use connman as connection manager instead of iwconfig. I've tried to get up the interfaces with the follow commands: ip link set wlan0 up or. ifconfig wlan0 up

Sep 4, 2016 · I want to use iwconfig. The install of wireless tools: tristan@debian:~$ sudo apt install wireless-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done wireless-tools is already the newest version. when i try to run iwconfig: tristan@debian:~$ iwconfig bash: iwconfig: command not found

Jun 11, 2012 · The iwconfig tool is like ifconfig and ethtool for wireless cards. You can view and set the basic Wi-Fi network details, such as the SSID, channel, and encryption. There's also many advanced settings you can view and change, including receive sensitivity, RTS/CTS, fragmentation, and retries.

sudo iwconfig wlps0 essid "My ASUS" (my android hotspot has no password) without any result or any sort of output... PS: The same things work very well using GUI, I can connect to HOME (inserting password) and to "My ASUS" without password, as it should be.

First run iwconfig to see if the wireless extensions are enabled. sudo su iwconfig If you are informed that there is a card, for example wlan0 and wireless interface is recognized as you are going to: Second to view the available wireless networks run iwlist. sudo su iwlist wlan0 scan Networks will show at your fingertips.

iwconfig wlan0 freq 5.18G. works. You MUST specify the channel (or exact corresponding frequency). ...

Nov 27, 2011 · If you want to specify it in ASCII, you have to prefix it with s: - I'm not sure if iwconfig will pad out an ASCII password, but try lengths of 5 or 13. See man iwconfig and scroll down to key/enc[ryption] for some examples.

Jan 11, 2019 · sudo ifconfig wlan0 down sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor sudo ifconfig wlan0 up Verify that you put wlan0 up before you try running reaver. You may have not properly brought up your wireless network adapter wlan0 You should restart your computer, run the above commands to configure your network adapter, and rerun reaver. If that didn't work ...