4 This package contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate
5 the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface
6 allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the
11 You'll find a lot of useful info on :
12 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
13 http://web.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
17 This file contains installation instruction and requirements.
22 This file describes how to use Pcmcia init script to configure
23 Wireless Extensions and how to use Pcmcia schemes.
27 This file will document the specifics of Wireless Extensions
28 with a few different distributions. I need your help to complete this
31 man pages (iwconfig.8, iwlist.8, iwpriv.8, iwspy.8)
33 VERY IMPORTANT : I try to keep the man page up to date, so
34 you'd better read them before asking questions.
35 ALSO IMPORTANT : Those man pages describe the capacity of the
36 tools, no device implement the full range (and drivers usually
39 As far as I know, the man pages are the most complete, up to
40 date and accurate documentation of the wireless tools. An update of
41 the web page related to Wireless Extension is long overdue. Send
43 The man pages can either be copied in a location where the
44 command "man" will find them, such as /usr/local/man/man8, or can be
45 read locally with the command :
46 nroff -man xxx.8 | less
50 The main wireless tool. Used for device configuration and to see
51 the most common wireless parameters.
55 Display some large chunk of information not displayed by iwconfig.
56 For example, all bit rates, all frequencies, all keys...
60 Mobile IP support test and allow get get stats per MAC address
61 (instead of globally). Also, for some driver/device, this is the only
62 way to get stats in Ad-Hoc mode.
66 Manipulate driver private ioctls : all parameters that are
67 specific to a driver or a device and therefore not part of iwconfig.
71 Output the ESSID or NWID of the specified device.
72 Can also output it in a form that can be used as a Pcmcia Scheme.
76 Display Wireless Events. This is new, so there is not much support
77 in drivers for it yet...
81 The Wireless Tools helper library. May be usefull if you want
82 to create your own applications using Wireless Extensions.
84 Changelog, contributions
85 ------------------------
90 Definition of the Wireless Extensions. Remember that the
91 definition used by the drivers and the tools must match, otherwise
92 funny things may happen. The tools try to check for that.
93 Since Wireless Extensions v12, you can no longer drop this
94 file in your kernel headers to update the Wireless Extensions, you
95 need to use the full patches available on my web page. So, the use is
96 more if you plan to do some cross compile or something similar.
97 Just for your enjoyement, there is various release of it. If
98 your kernel/drivers are old, you may want to try the older releases...
102 Various samples of code showing how to implement some of the
103 more tricky feature of Wireless Extensions in your driver.
104 Note that there is no guarantee that this code compile, let
105 alone work, but it should point you in the proper direction.
106 Also, have a look at existing drivers in the Linux kernel.
110 My web page list many other tools using Wireless
111 Extensions that you may find useful...
112 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html#links
116 You have the source, and it is documented. In 99% of the case,
117 you will find your answer there.