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1 office 1 .\" Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - 2002 - 2004
2 .\" wireless.7
3 .\"
4 .TH WIRELESS 7 "4 March 2004" "wireless-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
5 .\"
6 .\" NAME part
7 .\"
8 .SH NAME
9 wireless \- Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
10 .\"
11 .\" SYNOPSIS part
12 .\"
13 .SH SYNOPSIS
14 .B iwconfig
15 .br
16 .B iwpriv \-a
17 .br
18 .\"
19 .\" DESCRIPTION part
20 .\"
21 .SH DESCRIPTION
22 The
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.
27 .br
28 The
29 .B Wireless Tools
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.
34 .br
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.
40 .\"
41 .\" DEBIAN 3.0 part
42 .\"
43 .SH DEBIAN 3.0
44 In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking
45 devices using the network configuration tool
46 .BR ifupdown (8).
47 .TP
48 .B File :
49 .I /etc/network/interfaces
50 .TP
51 .B Form :
52 .RI wireless\- "<function> <value>"
53 .br
54 wireless\-essid Home
55 .br
56 wireless\-mode Ad\-Hoc
57 .TP
58 .B See also :
59 .I /etc/network/if\-pre\-up.d/wireless\-tools
60 .br
61 .I /usr/share/doc/wireless\-tools/README.Debian
62 .\"
63 .\" SuSE 8.0 part
64 .\"
65 .SH SuSE 8.0
66 SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their
67 network scripts.
68 .TP
69 .B Tool :
70 .B Yast2
71 .TP
72 .B File :
73 .I /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
74 .br
75 .I /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg\-*
76 .TP
77 .B Form :
78 .RI WIRELESS_ "<function>" = "<value>"
79 .br
80 WIRELESS_ESSID="Home"
81 .br
82 WIRELESS_MODE=Ad\-Hoc
83 .TP
84 .B See also :
85 man ifup
86 .br
87 info scpm
88 .\"
89 .\" PCMCIA part
90 .\"
91 .SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
92 If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia
93 package, you can use this method.
94 .TP
95 .B File :
96 .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
97 .TP
98 .B Form :
99 *,*,*,*)
100 .br
101 ESSID="Home"
102 .br
103 MODE="Ad-Hoc"
104 .br
105 ;;
106 .TP
107 .B See also :
108 .I /etc/pcmcia/wireless
109 .br
110 File
111 .I PCMCIA.txt
112 part of Wireless Tools package
113 .\"
114 .\" AUTHOR part
115 .\"
116 .SH AUTHOR
117 Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hpl.hp.com
118 .br
119 .I http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
120 .\"
121 .\" SEE ALSO part
122 .\"
123 .SH SEE ALSO
124 .BR iwconfig (8),
125 .BR iwlist (8),
126 .BR iwspy (8),
127 .BR iwpriv (8),
128 .BR iwevent (8).