wireless

WIRELESS(7)                Linux Programmer's Manual               WIRELESS(7)



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  con-
       figuration  files.  It is documented in more details in the Linux Wire-
       less LAN Howto.
       The Wireless Tools are use to change configuration on the fly,  to  get
       statistics  and  diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their
       own man page (see below).
       Wireless configuration is specific to each Linux distribution. This man
       page  will  contain in the future the configuration procedure for a few
       common distributions (when I get the necessary info from them). For the
       time  being,  check  the various files included with the Wireless Tools
       package.

DEBIAN 3.0
       Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration  in  their
       network scripts.

       File : /etc/network/interfaces

       Form : wireless_<function> <value>
              wireless_essid Home
              wireless_mode ad_hoc

       See also :
              /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool
              /usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian

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="MY_ESSID"
                  MODE="Managed"
                  ;;

       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).



net-tools                        12 July 2002                      WIRELESS(7)