Pywifi 0.3 review

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 42K Developer: Roman Joost

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Pywifi project is a Python library that provides currently read access to information about a W-Lan card's capabilities, like the wireless extensions written in C.

Typical output of pyiwconfig.py:

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"romanofski"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417GHz Access Point:00:80:C8:15:0C:65
Bit Rate:11 Mbit Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity:off/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption:Operation not permitted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:15/100 Signal level:-55dBm Noise level:-96dBm
Rx invalid nwid:190 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:8 Invalid misc:83736 Missed beacon: 0

wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"romanofski"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417GHz Access Point:00:80:C8:15:0C:65
Bit Rate:11 Mbit Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity:off/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption:Operation not permitted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:15/100 Signal level:-55dBm Noise level:-96dBm
Rx invalid nwid:190 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:8 Invalid misc:83736 Missed beacon: 0

Requirements:
Python