1 This package contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate
2 the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface
3 allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the
8 Installation instruction and requirements.
10 man pages (iwconfig.8, iwpriv.8, iwspy.8)
12 As far as I know, the man pages are the most complete, up to
13 date and accurate documentation of the wireless tools, and you really
15 They can either be copied in a location where the command
16 "man" will find them, or can be read with the command :
17 nroff -man xxx.8 | more
21 You'll find a lot of useful info on :
22 http://web.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
26 The main wireless tool. Used for device configuration and to see
27 the most common parameters.
31 Mobile IP support test and allow get get stats per MAC address
32 (instead of globally). Also display available bit rates and
37 Manipulate driver private ioctls (all that is not available in
38 iwconfig). These are device specific parameters.
42 Graphical tool for the Netwave created by Dag Brattli <dagb@cs.uit.no>
45 The list of changes, credits and errata notes are in
46 iwcommon.h. Compilation might be tricky, see iwcommon.h for header