- Wireless Tools
- --------------
+ Wireless Tools & IfRename
+ -------------------------
This package contains the Wireless tools, used to manipulate
the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extensions is an interface
allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the
specific stats.
+ It also contains the IfRename package, used for advance
+renaming of network interfaces.
web page :
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Extensions integration in the most common Linux distributions. I need
your help to complete this file.
-HOTPLUG.txt
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+HOTPLUG-UDEV.txt
+----------------
This file documents how to manage and configure removable
-wireless cards using Hotplug. This is more advanced than the simple
-procedures of DISTRIBUTION.txt. This is currently mostly Debian
+wireless cards using Hotplug or uDev. This is more advanced than the
+simple procedures of DISTRIBUTION.txt. This is currently mostly Debian
specific, but I hope you will contribute for other distributions.
PCMCIA.txt
read locally with the command :
nroff -man xxx.8 | less
-localised man pages (fr/*)
+localised man pages (fr.ISO8859-1/* ; fr.UTF-8/* ; cs/*)
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Localised man pages are not made by me, therefore the only
localisations available are those sent to me by courageous volonteers,
The Wireless Tools helper library. May be useful if you want
to create your own applications using Wireless Extensions.
+iwmulticall.c
+-------------
+ Multicall version of the tools for embedded systems.
+
Changelog, contributions :
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See CHANGELOG.h
alone works, but it should point you in the proper direction.
Also, have a look at existing drivers in the Linux kernel.
+19-udev-ifrename.rules :
+----------------------
+ udev rules to integrate properly ifrename (udev >= 107).
+
+iw26x_restore_full_essid.diff :
+-----------------------------
+ Current Linux kernel have a few bugs managing ESSID. These
+patches fix it. The first patch (iw261_...) is for kernel 2.6.19 to
+2.6.21, the second patch (iw262_...) is for kernel 2.6.22 and later.
+
Other tools :
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My web page lists many other tools using Wireless