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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 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 AT hpl.com
       http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

SEE ALSO
       iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).



wireless-tools                   4 March 2004                      WIRELESS(7)

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