Bug 6018 - Replace obsolete wireless-tools with iw tool
Summary: Replace obsolete wireless-tools with iw tool
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: connectivity (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Multiple
: Medium+ enhancement
Target Milestone: 2.1 M2
Assignee: Ross Burton
QA Contact: Lucian Musat
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Reported: 2014-03-20 14:37 UTC by Cristian Iorga
Modified: 2016-01-22 23:50 UTC (History)
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Description Cristian Iorga 2014-03-20 14:37:24 UTC 
The new tool of choice in the Linux world for configuring/working with wireless networks is iw tool.
As such, wireless-tools should be removed from oe-core and iw placed in oe-core as a replacement.
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2015-10-28 10:18:35 UTC 
iw is now in OE-Core and is pulled into packagegroup-base when DISTRO_FEATURES includes "wifi". wireless-tools is still available and pulled in the same way, but you can set VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_wireless-tools to just "iw" to only bring in iw. I'm not sure, but does that mean we can mark this one resolved now?
Comment 2 Ross Burton 2016-01-22 23:50:33 UTC 
Yes, I think it does.

Fixed in oe-core 0c21e207537deb1c0290be631b4b7d84fba32842.