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 detail in the Linux Wire-
       less LAN Howto.
       The Wireless Tools are used to change the  configuration	 of  wireless
       LAN  networking interfaces on the fly, to get their current configura-
       tion, 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 DISTRIBU-
       TIONS.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.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)