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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install iw using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install iw
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install iw using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install iw
How To Uninstall iw on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iw package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove iw
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iw on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
