Wireless Tools

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Introduction

The wireless tools package works with kernel's wireless extensions. The wireless extentions in the kernel allow extra configuration options for wireless devices to be controlled from userspace. The wireless tools package is just a simple set of command-line tools that interact with the kernels wireless extensions. The wireless tools package shoudl include the following programs:

  • iwconfig
  • iwlist
  • iwspy
  • iwpriv
  • ifrename
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Installation

Get wireless tools source package (we should have version 28 on the SBC). We want the wireless tools configured to be installed in /usr/local but to get then in the SBC root we want to install them to /sbc/usr/local (or /home3/sbc/usr/local). 

tar xvzf 
tar xvzf dl/wireless_tools.28.tar.gz
cd wireless_tools.28
make PREFIX=/usr/local 
su   
make PREFIX=/sbc/usr/local INSTALL_MAN=/usr/local/man INSTALL_INC=/usr/local/include install

This will give you the warning (below), which is ok. 

/bin/sh: ldconfig: command not found
*** Could not run ldconfig ! ***

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Usage

TODO: add information on programs

  • iwconfig
  • iwlist
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