wireless(7)

1WIRELESS(7)                Linux Programmer's Manual               WIRELESS(7)
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NAME

6       wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
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SYNOPSIS

9       iwconfig
10       iwpriv -a
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DESCRIPTION

13       The  Wireless Extensions is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN
14       networking interfaces.  It is composed of a variety of tools  and  con‐
15       figuration files. It is documented in more detail in the Linux Wireless
16       LAN Howto.
17       The Wireless Tools are used to change the configuration of wireless LAN
18       networking  interfaces  on the fly, to get their current configuration,
19       to get statistics and diagnose them. They are described  in  their  own
20       man page, see below for references.
21       Wireless configuration is specific to each Linux distribution. This man
22       page will contain in the future the configuration procedure for  a  few
23       common  distributions.  For  the  time  being, check the file DISTRIBU‐
24       TIONS.txt included with the Wireless Tools package.
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DEBIAN 3.0

27       In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can  configure  wireless  LAN  networking
28       devices using the network configuration tool ifupdown(8).
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30       File : /etc/network/interfaces
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32       Form : wireless-<function> <value>
33              wireless-essid Home
34              wireless-mode Ad-Hoc
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36       See also :
37              /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
38              /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian
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SuSE 8.0

41       SuSE  8.0  (and  later)  has integrated wireless configuration in their
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46       File : /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
47              /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-*
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49       Form : WIRELESS_<function>=<value>
50              WIRELESS_ESSID="Home"
51              WIRELESS_MODE=Ad-Hoc
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53       See also :
54              man ifup
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ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS

58       If you are using the original configuration  scripts  from  the  Pcmcia
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61       File : /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
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63       Form : *,*,*,*)
64                  ESSID="Home"
65                  MODE="Ad-Hoc"
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68       See also :
69              /etc/pcmcia/wireless
70              File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package
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AUTHOR

73       Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
74       http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
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