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Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions.
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4 March 2004
WIRELESS(7) Linux Programmer's Manual WIRELESS(7)
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NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless ExtensionsSYNOPSIS
iwconfig iwpriv -aDESCRIPTION
The Wireless Extensions is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking inter‐ faces. 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 inter‐ faces 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 net‐ work 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 scpmORIGINAL 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 packageAUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes -@hpl.hp.com
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SEE ALSO
iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).| This manual | Reference | Other manuals |
|---|---|---|
| wireless(7) | referred by | iwconfig(8) | iwevent(8) | iwlist(8) | iwpriv(8) | iwspy(8) | rutilt(1) | wavemon(1) |
| refer to | iwconfig(8) | iwevent(8) | iwlist(8) | iwpriv(8) | iwspy(8) |