wifi-status

       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  <kirk-
       land@ubuntu.com>  for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).  Per-
       mission 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.

byobu                             27 Sep 2010                   wifi-status(1)