WIRELESS
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 4 March 2004
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NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
SYNOPSIS
iwconfig
iwpriv -a
DESCRIPTION
The
Wireless Extensions
is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces.
It is composed of a variety of tools and configuration files. It is
documented in more detail in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
The
Wireless Tools
are used to change the configuration of wireless LAN networking
interfaces on the fly, to get their current configuration, to get
statistics and diagnose them. They are described in their own man
page, see below for references.
Wireless configuration
is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in
the future the configuration procedure for a few common
distributions. For the time being, check the file DISTRIBUTIONS.txt
included with the Wireless Tools package.
DEBIAN 3.0
In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking
devices using the network configuration tool
ifupdown(8).
- File :
-
/etc/network/interfaces
- Form :
-
wireless-<function> <value>
wireless-essid Home
wireless-mode Ad-Hoc
- See also :
-
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
/usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian
SuSE 8.0
SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their
network scripts.
- Tool :
-
Yast2
- File :
-
/etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-*
- Form :
-
WIRELESS_<function>=<value>
WIRELESS_ESSID="Home"
WIRELESS_MODE=Ad-Hoc
- See also :
-
man ifup
info scpm
ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia
package, you can use this method.
- File :
-
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
- Form :
-
*,*,*,*)
ESSID="Home"
MODE="Ad-Hoc"
;;
- See also :
-
/etc/pcmcia/wireless
File
PCMCIA.txt
part of Wireless Tools package
AUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
SEE ALSO
iwconfig(8),
iwlist(8),
iwspy(8),
iwpriv(8),
iwevent(8).
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- DEBIAN 3.0
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- SuSE 8.0
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- ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
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- AUTHOR
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- SEE ALSO
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