NAME

       wifi-status - monitor the wireless interface

SYNOPSIS

       wifi-status [INTERFACE]

DESCRIPTION

       wifi-status is a program that monitors a wireless interface.

       This is often useful when trying to associate with an access point.

EXAMPLE

        $ wifi-status

       Every 1.0s: iwconfig wlan0; ifconfig wlan0

       wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"default"
                 Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:22:33:44:55
                 Bit Rate=81 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
                 Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
                 Power Management:on
                 Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-35 dBm
                 Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
                 Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

       wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55
                 inet addr:10.10.10.103  Bcast:10.9.8.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
                 inet6 addr: aaaa::bbb:cccc:dddd:eeee/64 Scope:Link
                 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
                 RX packets:10582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                 TX packets:6383 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
                 RX bytes:8243607 (8.2 MB)  TX bytes:1077323 (1.0 MB)

SEE ALSO

       iwconfig(8), ifconfig(8)

AUTHOR

       This  manpage  and  the  utility  was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for
       Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted  to  copy,  distribute
       and/or  modify  this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License  can  be  found  in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.