We are looking at a new package,
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/iw/iw-4.9.tar.xz. This only
produces a single executable: iw. It does not produce a library.
It does provides functionality similar to wireless tools.
pm-utils will continue to need wireless-tools.
wicd needs wireless-tools
lxpanel needs iwlib.so that is only in wireless-tools
We have references in the mozilla apps:
# If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
I've looked at thunderbird and can't find where any of the wireless-tools
commands or library are used. I suspect the same for seamonkey and firefox.
Should we add iw to the book?
The instructions for BLFS are fairly simple:
sed -i "/INSTALL.*gz/s/.gz//" Makefile
make
make check
make SBINDIR=/sbin install
The only files installed are iw and iw.8.
-- Bruce
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