No 'Ifconfig'

I sat at an existing Arch Linux workstation today and tried to check the I.P. however the 'ifconfig' command returned:
-bash: ifconfig: command not found
I don't know if Arch Linux changed the way it does things or if this machine is missing a package. I do know it has an I.P. address and can get out to the Internet. This machine has no G.U.I. however. Can anyone tell me what I could be missing and or how to resolve this?

Stebalien wrote:net-tools was deprecated in favour of iprout2 (ip). News: http://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/.
But there are still issues w/ e.g. hostname: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24701
Last edited by karol (2011-07-06 17:38:24)

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Hey,
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So spent a while trying stuff out and stressing my tiny little brain for ideas, quick version is I did this:
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ifconfig: didn't list the interface (wireless is usually eth1)
lsmod: confirmed the module (ipw2200) was loaded
lspci: confirmed the card was there
After copying the output of the above commands plus the obligatory rc.conf onto usb to move to this machine (and just before pushing <submit> on a much larger post than this :-) I decided to check the mac address listed in ifconfig with what is on the sticker under my machine. Voila! My wireless has actually moved to eth0. OK, that's that solved. (Wish I checked that first though...)
But that means that the reason that my wireless card is now eth0 instead of eth1 is because my old-skool wired ethernet card is no longer there to be numero 0. Why isn't it working? lsmod shows that the tg3 module is loading (it's an Intel card with Broadcom chipset in a Thinkpad T43) , but it no longer shows up in ifconfig. lspci is not showing it (see below), only the wireless card comes up. Does this mean the hardware is borken? What else can I do to check the card?
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Edited subject
Last edited by von_Wanderlust (2009-07-28 16:10:22)

Yeah, doesn't give me anything about the ethernet card, but does show the wireless one. No, hang on, just found it. Hmmm, didn't see it before, but I was grepping for 'net' then.
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eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751M) rev 4101] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:12:34:56:78:9a
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[SOLVED] Missing network tools, ifconfig and route

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Last edited by agkbill (2011-06-21 20:36:35)

karol wrote:
tomk wrote:
Off-topic, but that's a bizarre way to use find.
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Do you mean 'man locate'? ;P
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Last edited by aligator (2014-02-24 16:19:41)

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgfile for how to enable "Command not found" hook.
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aligator wrote:Thank you for telling me that it is deprecated.
https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecat … net-tools/
Last edited by karol (2014-02-24 16:26:49)

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Platform : Oracle Linux 6.4
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[email protected]

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