Starting with Bering 1.2 those packages do not require libm.lrp anymore.

These are tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions written by Jean Tourrilhes. These two packages contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Linux Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats.

The wireless.lrp package provides the wireless utilities used for configuration, namely: iwconfig, iwpriw, iwspy. It also provide a wireless script in the /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ directory that will initialize the wireless interface(s) through the /etc/interfaces file. A valid interface file section for an eth2 wireless interface could look like:

iface eth2 inet static
	address 192.168.1.200
	masklen 24
	wireless_mode ad_hoc
	wireless_essid jacques
	wireless_channel 12

The wireutil.lrp package provides the wireless utilities used for information, namely: iwgetid, iwlist and iwevent.

Current "Bering" version: 25