The wireless tools
These tools are a collection of user-space utilities written to support the configuration of the WLAN devices and some related aspects of networking using the Linux Wireless Extension.
Note
The Linux Wireless Extension is a generic API that allows a driver to expose to the user-space configuration and statistics specific to common WLAN devices. Further information on this topic can be accessed at:Â http://www.labs.hpe.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html .
They are held in the wireless-tools package, and they should be already installed in the Wandboard (otherwise, we can install them as usual).
One of the most important tools of this collection is iwconfig
, which is used to manipulate the basic wireless parameters. As reported in the command's description, the iwconfig
command is very similar to ifconfig
. In fact, it can be used in a similar manner to get basic information of our WLAN, as shown here:
root@wb:~# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ...