[Solved] ifconfig command not found?

neuront · 2011-07-17 05:20:26

I'm installing arch on Lenovo Y460 whose eth controller is broadcom adapter.
When installing basic system, I tried following

modprobe -r tg3
modprobe broadcom
modprobe tg3
/etc/rc.d/network restart

then the install program recognize eth0 fine.

After basic system installed, I did nearly the same thing, then tried

ifconfig eth0 up

But surprisingly bash complaint that "ifconfig command not found". Is there anything bad I have done? TIA.

Last edited by neuront (2011-07-18 06:37:04)

Mektub · 2011-07-17 06:46:35

neuront,

net-tools (ifconfig) was deprecated in favour of iproute2 (ip).

News: http://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecati … et-tools/.

You can install it, though.

Better, use iproute:

http://bit.ly/rePX1P

Mektub

ewaller · 2011-07-17 06:50:43

net-tools has been deprecated in favor of iproute2. See this news item

In general, this means you should be using the ip command instead of ifconfig. If you wish, you can still install net-tools, but Arch is moving on...

Edit: Darn, snaked by Mektub

Last edited by ewaller (2011-07-17 06:51:59)

neuront · 2011-07-18 06:36:33

I see. Thanks a lot.
But it is really a great surprise that ifconfig and iwconfig are deprecated.

PIMPinator · 2011-07-21 17:32:50

Oh man, just did a fresh install on a laptop and had no idea what was going on, and didn't see anything in the wiki. I don't see how ip is used though, i can't even see how to list interfaces.

Last edited by PIMPinator (2011-07-21 17:36:17)

toofishes · 2011-07-21 18:08:15

PIMPinator wrote:

Oh man, just did a fresh install on a laptop and had no idea what was going on, and didn't see anything in the wiki. I don't see how ip is used though, i can't even see how to list interfaces.

It isn't that hard, you just need to use your brain a bit. just typing `ip` shows the list of available subcommands. For interfaces, e.g. links:

$ ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether f2:3c:91:96:cb:ca brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 100
    link/none

And to show addresses assigned to those links:

$ ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether f2:3c:91:96:cb:ca brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 173.255.192.10/24 brd 173.255.192.255 scope global eth0
    inet 192.168.142.70/17 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fe96:cbca/64 scope global dynamic 
       valid_lft 43051sec preferred_lft 43051sec
    inet6 fe80::f03c:91ff:fe96:cbca/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
7: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 100
    link/none 
    inet 10.8.0.1 peer 10.8.0.2/32 scope global tun0

PIMPinator · 2011-07-21 18:43:34

Thanks, it's late so I couldn't see a way to do it when I had a look earlier. Also I would never have connected "link" to show NICs.

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[Solved] ifconfig command not found?

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