| .\" Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - 2002 |
| .\" wireless.7 |
| .\" |
| .TH WIRELESS 7 "12 July 2002" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .\" |
| .\" NAME part |
| .\" |
| .SH NAME |
| wireless \- Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions |
| .\" |
| .\" SYNOPSIS part |
| .\" |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B iwconfig |
| .br |
| .B iwpriv -a |
| .br |
| .\" |
| .\" DESCRIPTION part |
| .\" |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The |
| .B 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 details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto. |
| .br |
| The |
| .B Wireless Tools |
| are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and |
| diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their own man page |
| (see below). |
| .br |
| .B Wireless configuration |
| is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in |
| the future the configuration procedure for a few common distributions |
| (when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check |
| the various files included with the Wireless Tools package. |
| .\" |
| .\" DEBIAN 3.0 part |
| .\" |
| .SH DEBIAN 3.0 |
| Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their |
| network scripts. |
| .TP |
| .B File : |
| .I /etc/network/interfaces |
| .TP |
| .B Form : |
| .RI wireless_ "<function> <value>" |
| .br |
| wireless_essid Home |
| .br |
| wireless_mode ad_hoc |
| .TP |
| .B See also : |
| .I /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool |
| .br |
| .I /usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian |
| .\" |
| .\" PCMCIA part |
| .\" |
| .SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS |
| If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia |
| package, you can use this method. |
| .TP |
| .B File : |
| .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts |
| .TP |
| .B Form : |
| *,*,*,*) |
| .br |
| ESSID="MY_ESSID" |
| .br |
| MODE="Managed" |
| .br |
| ;; |
| .TP |
| .B See also : |
| .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless |
| .br |
| File |
| .I PCMCIA.txt |
| part of Wireless Tools package |
| .\" |
| .\" AUTHOR part |
| .\" |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hpl.hp.com |
| .br |
| .I http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ |
| .\" |
| .\" SEE ALSO part |
| .\" |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR iwconfig (8), |
| .BR iwlist (8), |
| .BR iwspy (8), |
| .BR iwpriv (8), |
| .BR iwevent (8). |