wireless-tools is DEPRECATED

John W. Linville linville at redhat.com
Tue Mar 29 14:01:48 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:24:01AM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On 2011-03-26, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > wireless-tools is deprecated since time ago. iw/rfkill
> > should be used instead it.
> >
> Really? I thought iw can control mac80211 drivers only and not all
> wireless drivers have been ported to mac80211 yet
> <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers>.

Yes, sadly, that is correct.

John
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