【微知】如何安装iwconfig，如手动编译安装wireless-tools?（make； make install； vim /etc/ld.so.conf； ldconfig； iwconfig）

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背景

iwconfig是用来配置wifi的工具，属于wireless-tools工具集
有些时候在linux上无法找到wireless-tools工具集，需要手动编译，本文记录编译方式，以及一些问题。

要点

WT工具的背景， WT是HP维护的工具，since1996年

The Linux Wireless Extension and the Wireless Tools are an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard (through my contribution) since 1996, and build with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.
The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension). Another advantage is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux).
The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. They use a text