On 15 March 2017 at 18:06, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are looking at a new package, https://www.kernel.org/pub/sof > tware/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. > > This link gives a good overview of iw and its dependencies:- https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw Richard
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