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[1]. 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 (Debian based) distribution, this package can be installed with the following command:
user@host:~$ sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
Followed by the user's password.
Package Tools
- ifrename: Name wireless interfaces.
- iwconfig: Change and view basic wireless parameters.
- iwlist: Scanning and listing of information about wireless networks.
- iwpriv: Manipulate Wireless Extension parameters specific to a driver.
- iwspy: View node link quality.
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