wireless
Manual Reference Pages - WIRELESS (7)
NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
CONTENTS
Synopsis
Description
Debian 3.0
SuSE 8.0
Original Pcmcia Scripts
Author
See Also
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
com
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).
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