| b.liu | e958203 | 2025-04-17 19:18:16 +0800 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | .\" Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - 2002 |
| 2 | .\" wireless.7 |
| 3 | .\" |
| 4 | .TH WIRELESS 7 "12 July 2002" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| 5 | .\" |
| 6 | .\" NAME part |
| 7 | .\" |
| 8 | .SH NAME |
| 9 | wireless \- Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions |
| 10 | .\" |
| 11 | .\" SYNOPSIS part |
| 12 | .\" |
| 13 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 14 | .B iwconfig |
| 15 | .br |
| 16 | .B iwpriv -a |
| 17 | .br |
| 18 | .\" |
| 19 | .\" DESCRIPTION part |
| 20 | .\" |
| 21 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 22 | The |
| 23 | .B Wireless Extensions |
| 24 | is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces. |
| 25 | It is composed of a variety of tools and configuration files. It is |
| 26 | documented in more details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto. |
| 27 | .br |
| 28 | The |
| 29 | .B Wireless Tools |
| 30 | are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and |
| 31 | diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their own man page |
| 32 | (see below). |
| 33 | .br |
| 34 | .B Wireless configuration |
| 35 | is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in |
| 36 | the future the configuration procedure for a few common distributions |
| 37 | (when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check |
| 38 | the various files included with the Wireless Tools package. |
| 39 | .\" |
| 40 | .\" DEBIAN 3.0 part |
| 41 | .\" |
| 42 | .SH DEBIAN 3.0 |
| 43 | Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their |
| 44 | network scripts. |
| 45 | .TP |
| 46 | .B File : |
| 47 | .I /etc/network/interfaces |
| 48 | .TP |
| 49 | .B Form : |
| 50 | .RI wireless_ "<function> <value>" |
| 51 | .br |
| 52 | wireless_essid Home |
| 53 | .br |
| 54 | wireless_mode ad_hoc |
| 55 | .TP |
| 56 | .B See also : |
| 57 | .I /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool |
| 58 | .br |
| 59 | .I /usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian |
| 60 | .\" |
| 61 | .\" PCMCIA part |
| 62 | .\" |
| 63 | .SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS |
| 64 | If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia |
| 65 | package, you can use this method. |
| 66 | .TP |
| 67 | .B File : |
| 68 | .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts |
| 69 | .TP |
| 70 | .B Form : |
| 71 | *,*,*,*) |
| 72 | .br |
| 73 | ESSID="MY_ESSID" |
| 74 | .br |
| 75 | MODE="Managed" |
| 76 | .br |
| 77 | ;; |
| 78 | .TP |
| 79 | .B See also : |
| 80 | .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless |
| 81 | .br |
| 82 | File |
| 83 | .I PCMCIA.txt |
| 84 | part of Wireless Tools package |
| 85 | .\" |
| 86 | .\" AUTHOR part |
| 87 | .\" |
| 88 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 89 | Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hpl.hp.com |
| 90 | .br |
| 91 | .I http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ |
| 92 | .\" |
| 93 | .\" SEE ALSO part |
| 94 | .\" |
| 95 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 96 | .BR iwconfig (8), |
| 97 | .BR iwlist (8), |
| 98 | .BR iwspy (8), |
| 99 | .BR iwpriv (8), |
| 100 | .BR iwevent (8). |