Project Summary
iw is a new nl80211 based Linux CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. It supports all new drivers that have been added to the kernel recently. The old tool iwconfing, which uses Wireless Extensions interface, is deprecated and it's strongly recommended to switch to iw and nl80211.
Like rest of Linux kernel, iw is still under development. Features are added 'as we go'. The only documentation for iw is this page and output from 'iw help'. Please help expand this page.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 5 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 2007
ending with its most recent commit about 1 month ago
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