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4 .TH WIRELESS 7 "12 July 2002" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
9 wireless \- Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
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.
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
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.
43 Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their
47 .I /etc/network/interfaces
50 .RI wireless_ "<function> <value>"
57 .I /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool
59 .I /usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian
63 .SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
64 If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia
65 package, you can use this method.
68 .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
80 .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless
84 part of Wireless Tools package
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