Rfkill Alternatives

Rfkill is described as 'rfkill is a small tool to query the state of the rfkill switches, buttons and subsystem interfaces' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are seven alternatives to Rfkill for Linux, Xfce, Mac and Windows. The best alternative is wicd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rfkill are Ethtool, iw, ceni and wpa_supplicant.

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Rfkill

Free • Open Source
Linux

rfkill is a small tool to query the state of the rfkill switches, buttons and subsystem interfaces.

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wicd
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Xfce
8 alternatives to wicd
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.
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Ethtool
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Free • Open Source
Linux
8 alternatives to Ethtool
ethtool - utility for controlling network drivers and hardware.
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iw
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Free • Open Source
Linux
8 alternatives to iw
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.
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Wireless
Network Scanner
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ceni
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Xfce
6 alternatives to ceni
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.
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Wireless
wpa_supplicant
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
Xfce
7 alternatives to wpa_supplicant
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...
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VSNM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
8 alternatives to VSNM
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.
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Linux-based
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IQonn Lite
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
7 alternatives to IQonn Lite
IQonn.com is a community that offers Mobile travellers the tools needed to be truly nomadic. If you have any Mobile Data subscription, Notebook with a Wireless device or data card and you are Out of Office frequently, then IQonn.com is the place for you. IQonn.
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wicd

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Ethtool

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iw

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ceni

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wpa_supplicant

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VSNM

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IQonn Lite

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