wireless (7)
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Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - 2002 - 2004 wireless.7
NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless ExtensionsSYNOPSIS
iwconfigiwpriv -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.comwww.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux