How To Install iw on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iw.
Install iw on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iw
using yum
by running the following command:
Install iw on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iw
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall iw on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iw
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.