iwinfo-lite

Fork of the OpenWrt utility iwinfo with fewer dependencies.

iwinfo provides a uniform interface for interacting with different wireless drivers.

Supported driver backends:

• nl80211 (aka cfg80211)
• wl (Broadcom)
• madwifi

Overview

This project is a slightly modified version of iwinfo that:

• does not require ubus or uci
• does not require lua, by default
• works with both libnl-3 and libnl-tiny

This project produces libiwinfo.so, the iwinfo command line utility, and an optional Lua module iwinfo.so.

Building

iwinfo uses make to build and provides some options:

• BACKENDS (required) defines which backends to include support for.
  • Valid options (multiple can be specified): nl80211, wl, and madwifi.
  • When specifying nl80211, LDFLAGS must be also given to actually link to the desired netlink library.
• LUA, if specified, should be the name of the system installed lua. Usually lua or lua5.1. CFLAGS may be required to specify the correct include path.
• As described above, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS can be used to customize build options for cc and ld, respectively.

Build for nl-tiny

make BACKENDS=nl80211 LDFLAGS="-lnl-tiny"

Build for nl-3

make BACKENDS=nl80211 CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/libnl3" LDFLAGS="-lnl-3 -lnl-genl-3"

Specify multiple backends

make BACKENDS="madwifi nl80211" LDFLAGS="-lnl-tiny"

Building the Lua module

Build the iwinfo lua module by specifying the LUA make option with the desired lua library (such as lua5.1 or simply lua).

make BACKENDS=madwifi LUA="lua5.1"

License

Full license

iwinfo - Wireless Information Library - Command line frontend

Copyright (C) 2011 Jo-Philipp Wich <[email protected]>

The iwinfo library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
as published by the Free Software Foundation.

The iwinfo library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with the iwinfo library. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.