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iw

iw is a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. Created by Linux Wireless

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iw is a 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. In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required.

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network-management network-manager network-scanning wireless wireless-network-detector wlan wpa wpa2

iw was added by kafene in Oct 2012 and the latest update was made in Dec 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Jan 2013 There is a history of all activites on iw in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on iw or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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