iw package (Was: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda)
- To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
- Cc: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>, Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>, "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>, Debian Devel <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>, debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>, "John S. Skogtvedt" <jss@bzz.no>, Debian/Ubuntu wpasupplicant Maintainers <pkg-wpa-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
- Subject: iw package (Was: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda)
- From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:55:23 +0100
- Message-id: <20100304105523.GE5011@pengutronix.de>
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Hello,
> BTW -- while we're on the topic of 2.6.32 and the next Debian release,
> and 802.11, do you guys ship iw by default yet? If not I highly
> encourage it. It should be shipped just as iwconfig is shipped. iw is
> the replacement for iwconfig, it uses the new nl80211 and nl80211 is
> used by all cfg80211 and mac80211 drivers. All new upstream drivers
> have to be cfg80211 based (or mac80211) so hence why I recommend to
> just ship iw by default today.
$ apt-cache show iw
Package: iw
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 120
Maintainer: Debian/Ubuntu wpasupplicant Maintainers <pkg-wpa-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.9.14-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libnl1 (>= 1.1)
Conflicts: aircrack-ng (<< 1:1.0~rc2-1)
Filename: pool/main/i/iw/iw_0.9.14-1_amd64.deb
Size: 30602
MD5sum: 8c04be8f94b178d0c3f6a2c8b95ed994
SHA1: 7cdf4372b119a89f27132b9453d7d93e4715ce77
SHA256: fa1ad798b631b3f3b7f0ad02a1d99db678746706117e794c540af4b63f4b7910
Description: tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
This package contains the `iw' tool which allows you to configure and show
information about wireless networking.
.
In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless
configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required. See
/usr/share/doc/iw/README.Debian for a more detailed overview of iw.
Homepage: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
Tag: implemented-in::c, network::configuration, role::program, use::configuring
so it exists, but for now this isn't installed by default.
Best regards
Uwe
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