allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the
specific stats.
+INSTALL
+-------
+ Installation instruction and requirements.
+
+man pages (iwconfig.8, iwpriv.8, iwspy.8)
+---------
+ As far as I know, the man pages are the most complete, up to
+date and accurate documentation of the wireless tools, and you really
+should read them.
+ They can either be copied in a location where the command
+"man" will find them, or can be read with the command :
+ nroff -man xxx.8 | more
+
+web page
+--------
+ You'll find a lot of useful info on :
+ http://web.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
+
iwconfig.c
----------
- The main wireless tool. Used for device configuration.
- You need of course to compile it.
- This also includes the functionality previously contained in iwpriv.c.
- It allows you to access device specific extensions.
+ The main wireless tool. Used for device configuration and to see
+ the most common parameters.
iwspy.c
-------
Mobile IP support test and allow get get stats per MAC address
- (instead of globally).
+ (instead of globally). Also display available bit rates and
+ frequencies.
iwpriv.c
--------
- Manipulate driver private ioctls.
+ Manipulate driver private ioctls (all that is not available in
+ iwconfig). These are device specific parameters.
xwireless.c
-----------
Graphical tool for the Netwave created by Dag Brattli <dagb@cs.uit.no>
- The man page should describe adequately the behaviour of the tools.
The list of changes, credits and errata notes are in
-iwcommon.h. Compilation might be tricky.
+iwcommon.h. Compilation might be tricky, see iwcommon.h for header
+problems...
Jean <jt@hpl.hp.com>
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