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4 .TH WIRELESS 7 "4 March 2004" "wireless-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 detail in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
30 are used to change the configuration of wireless LAN networking
31 interfaces on the fly, to get their current configuration, to get
32 statistics and diagnose them. They are described in their own man
33 page, see below for references.
35 .B Wireless configuration
36 is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in
37 the future the configuration procedure for a few common
38 distributions. For the time being, check the file DISTRIBUTIONS.txt
39 included with the Wireless Tools package.
44 In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking
45 devices using the network configuration tool
49 .I /etc/network/interfaces
52 .RI wireless\- "<function> <value>"
56 wireless\-mode Ad\-Hoc
59 .I /etc/network/if\-pre\-up.d/wireless\-tools
61 .I /usr/share/doc/wireless\-tools/README.Debian
66 SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their
73 .I /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
75 .I /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg\-*
78 .RI WIRELESS_ "<function>" = "<value>"
91 .SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
92 If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia
93 package, you can use this method.
96 .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
108 .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless
112 part of Wireless Tools package
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