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Wireless tools for Linux is a package maintained by [[Jean Tourrilhes]] to facilitate the manipulation of the [[Linux Wireless Extension]]. It is a set of simple text-based tools intended to support the full wireless extension<ref>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html</ref>. In many GNU/Linux distributions, this package is included by default, or based on whether a wireless card is present. If it is not automatically installed by the distribution, it is usually easy to find in binary form. As an example, on an [[Ubuntu (Linux distribution)|Ubuntu]] ([[Debian]] based) distribution, this package can be installed with the following command:
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