iw Alternatives
iw is described as 'New nl80211 based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. It supports almost all new drivers that have been added to the kernel recently. It allows you to configure and show information about wireless networking' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are eight alternatives to iw for Linux, Xfce and Mac. The best iw alternative is wicd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iw are NetworkManager, Wireless Tools, Ethtool and ceni.
Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.
- - wicd is the most popular Linux alternative to iw.
- - wicd is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to iw.
wicd Features
- 8 NetworkManager alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
NetworkManager is a set of co-operative tools that make networking simple and straightforward. Whether WiFi, wired, 3G, or Bluetooth, NetworkManager allows you to quickly move from one network to another: once a network has been configured and joined once, it can be detected and...
- 1 Wireless Tools alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
Wireless tools for Linux is a package of Linux commands (simple text-based utilities/tools) intended to support and facilitate the configuration of wireless devices using the Linux Wireless Extension.
Wireless Tools Features
ethtool - utility for controlling network drivers and hardware.
Ethtool Features
Network manager used by Linux distributions Sidux and Aptosid, but can be installed on debian based distributions, and compiled from source on just about any.
ceni Features
- 7 wpa_supplicant alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- Xfce
wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are...
- - wpa_supplicant is the most popular Mac alternative to iw.
wpa_supplicant Features
rfkill is a small tool to query the state of the rfkill switches, buttons and subsystem interfaces.
Rfkill Features
VSNM - Very Simple Network Manager
As the name suggests it manages the network in a very simplitic way. This version have wifi WPA and WEP only (more to come). To use it, just place the vsnm.cfg file at /etc/ and add there your existing networks. When you can the script (without.
VSNM Features