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docs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless-tools:wireless.utilities [2018/03/04 16:43] – ↷ Page moved from docs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless.utilities to docs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless-tools:wireless.utilities bobafetthotmaildocs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless-tool:wireless.utilities [2023/02/06 08:46] – [iwconfig] update broken links zetago
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 ====== Wireless Utilities ====== ====== Wireless Utilities ======
-As already explained at [[docs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless.overview]] the Linux IEEE 802.11 subsystem is fragmented. The available tools depend entirely on your [[http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers|driver]]. Wireless devices have an API different from that of Ethernet devices because the specifications of IEEE 802.11 regulate quite precisely the whole communications process, so it makes sense to NOT implement this requirements in each driver but only once for all drivers and also because there is the problem of the diverging frequency regulations world wide.+As already explained at [[docs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless.overview]] the Linux IEEE 802.11 subsystem is fragmented. The available tools depend entirely on your [[https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers|driver]]. Wireless devices have an API different from that of Ethernet devices because the specifications of IEEE 802.11 regulate quite precisely the whole communications process, so it makes sense to NOT implement this requirements in each driver but only once for all drivers and also because there is the problem of the diverging frequency regulations world wide.
  
 ===== mac80211-based drivers (ath9k, b43, brcmfmac, etc.) ===== ===== mac80211-based drivers (ath9k, b43, brcmfmac, etc.) =====
  
 ==== iwconfig ==== ==== iwconfig ====
-''[[man>iwconfig]]'' (and ''/proc/net/wireless'') is the configuration utility for the now <color red>obsolete</color> [[http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation/Wireless-Extensions|WEXT]] API, which is scheduled for removal. Use ''iw'' or ''iwinfo''.+''[[https://manpages.debian.org/man/8/iwconfig|iwconfig]]'' (and ''/proc/net/wireless'') is the configuration utility for the now <color red>obsolete</color> [[https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/wireless-extensions|Wext]] API, which is scheduled for removal. Use ''iw'' or ''iwinfo''.
  
  
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