Wireless Tools for Linux

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The Linux Wireless Extension and the Wireless Tools are an Open Source project sponsored by
Hewlett Packard
(through my contribution) since 1996, and build with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.
The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension). Another advantage is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux).
The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. They use a textual interface and are rather crude, but aim to support the full Wireless Extension. There are
many other tools
you can use with Wireless Extensions, however Wireless Tools is the reference implementation
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html#wext



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