Package: wireless-tools Priority: optional Version: 29-1 Source: wireless_tools Architecture: __ARCH__ Maintainer: Paul A. Whittaker Section: System/Network Destination: any Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) Description: Utilities for wireless (802.11) NIC configuration Utilities that use the Linux wireless extensions API (version 21) to configure compatible Linux drivers. Almost all Linux wireless drivers support wireless extensions to some extent. . In most cases these tools are sufficient to configure NICs for WEP security (or lack thereof!), but not WPA - you need wpa_supplicant for that.