4 .TH IWREDIR 8 "31 October 1996" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
9 iwredir \- WE-version wireless tool redirectot
14 .BI "iw" XXX " [ " args " ]"
22 is used to enable the use multiple version of the Wireless Tools on
25 pick the proper version of the wireless tools based on the version of
26 Wireless Extension of the current kernel.
28 A version of the Wireless Tools need to be compiled for each version
29 of Wireless Extensions expected to be used (this require specific
31 instructions), and each tool name need to be suffixed by the WE
34 for the binary of iwconfig compiled for Wireless Extension 16).
38 need to be installed under the name of each of the tool that need
40 .RI "(" iwconfig ", " iwlist "...)."
43 just adds the version of WE from the current kernel to the name it was
44 called and executed the resulting command name. If the user invoque
46 (that is now replaced with
48 and the current kernel has WE version
50 the final command executed will be
54 will read the Wireless Extension version of the current kernel from
55 .IR /proc/net/wireless .
58 works only for Wireless Extension 16 and later, all previous version
59 of WE are assumed to be version 15 or version 11.
61 is usually not installed by default and is expected to be used only by
70 Give the Wireless Extension version that
72 will use for redirection. This is mostly used in the Wireless Tools
73 Makefile when doing a versioned installation of the tools.