.\" Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - 2002
.\" wireless.7
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.TH WIRELESS 7 "12 July 2002" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.\" NAME part
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.SH NAME
wireless \- Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
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.\" SYNOPSIS part
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.B iwconfig
.br
.B iwpriv -a
.br
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.\" DESCRIPTION part
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.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B Wireless Extensions
is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces.
It is composed of a variety of tools and configuration files. It is
documented in more details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
.br
The
.B Wireless Tools
are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and
diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their own man page
(see below).
.br
.B Wireless configuration
is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in
the future the configuration procedure for a few common distributions
(when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check
the various files included with the Wireless Tools package.
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.\" DEBIAN 3.0 part
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.SH DEBIAN 3.0
Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their
network scripts.
.TP
.B File :
.I /etc/network/interfaces
.TP
.B Form :
.RI wireless_ "<function> <value>"
.br
wireless_essid Home
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wireless_mode ad_hoc
.TP
.B See also :
.I /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool
.br
.I /usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian
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.\" PCMCIA part
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.SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia
package, you can use this method.
.TP
.B File :
.I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
.TP
.B Form :
*,*,*,*)
.br
    ESSID="MY_ESSID"
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    MODE="Managed"
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    ;;
.TP
.B See also :
.I /etc/pcmcia/wireless
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File
.I PCMCIA.txt
part of Wireless Tools package
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.\" AUTHOR part
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.SH AUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hpl.hp.com
.br
.I http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
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.\" SEE ALSO part
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR iwconfig (8),
.BR iwlist (8),
.BR iwspy (8),
.BR iwpriv (8),
.BR iwevent (8).