Talk:Wireless tools for Linux

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Merge proposal from original author of iwconfig & iwlist

We should merge all the other stubs here, to avoid bloat and because the references used by one article are all but certainly going to mention at least one other tool. No sense rewriting the wheel on every page. Explaining these deeply interrelated tools in the same context would go a long way towards clearing up the complaints that the shorter pages associated with this project lack context, references, assertion of notability, etc. Any objections? MrZaius^talk 13:58, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did it – or at least I've made a beginning...

It's not really an article yet, I think. I just put the parts together, removed some redundancy and did a little polish here and there. Additionally, the structure is not the best, I think, and some of the texts on the individual tools seem(ed) to be barely more than a copy of the manpage (and maybe some shortening should be done..). So it might be a good idea if someone would at least have a look on the whole thing – also because English is not my native tongue...)--Speck-Made (talk) 21:42, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recent revert

This edit made the article internally inconsistent, using the terms "Linux" and "GNU/Linux" interchangeably. This is confusing; we should use one or the other. It also re-added an unneeded line break. It should be reverted. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 19:01, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deprecated toolset

Modern editions of the Linux (or GNU/Linux) distros use the "iw" suite, and "wireless-tools" (whose commands are described in this page) is no longer packaged.

This is not just "userspace shuffle", the Wireless tools package depends on a deprecated kernel API that is being phased out.

Confirmed on: Debian 9+ Ubuntu 18+

It would be helpful to have this information added to the page (the current text implies the toolset is in active use, which is false) and the link to "iw" made more relevant, since it is the successor to the wireless-tools toolset. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.160.13.171 (talk) 10:59, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]