GNU/Linux Rocky Installing Wireless Tools – QuickStart Guide
Hi! This tutorial will guide you step-by-step on How to Install Wireless Tools from Source Code in Rocky GNU/Linux.
The Linux Wireless Extension and the Wireless Tools are an Open Source Project sponsored by Hewlett Packard (through my contribution) since 1996, and build with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.
The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension). Another advantage is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux).
The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. They use a textual interface and are rather crude, but aim to support the full Wireless Extension. There are many other tools you can use with Wireless Extensions, however Wireless Tools is the reference implementation.
The Tools Set includes:
- iwconfig: manipulate the basic wireless parameters
- iwlist: allow to initiate scanning and list frequencies, bit-rates, encryption keys…
- iwspy: allow to get per node link quality
- iwpriv: allow to manipulate the Wireless Extensions specific to a driver (private)
- ifrename: allow to name interfaces based on various static criteria
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