How To Install iw on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw in Fedora 36. iw is A nl80211 based wireless configuration tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Fedora 36.

What is `iw`

iw is a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. Currently you can only use this utility to configure devices which use a mac80211 driver as these are the new drivers being written - only because most new wireless devices being sold are now SoftMAC.

We can use yum or dnf to install iw on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iw.

Install iw on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iw

Install iw on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iw

How To Uninstall iw on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the iw package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove iw

iw Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/281a874ab3e3c3c71da302c06ea28f89e6f937
/usr/sbin/iw
/usr/share/licenses/iw
/usr/share/licenses/iw/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iw.8.gz

References

iw website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).