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 (Free, Open Source), iw (Free, Open Source), ceni (Free, Open Source) and wpa_supplicant (Free, Open Source).
- 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.
- 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.No screenshots yet
- wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection.
- 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.