WIRELESS(7)                                         Linux Programmer's Manual                                        WIRELESS(7)



NAME
       wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions

SYNOPSIS
       iwconfig
       iwpriv -a

DESCRIPTION
       The  Wireless Extensions is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces.  It is composed of a vari-
       ety of tools and configuration files. It is documented in more detail in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
       The Wireless Tools are used to change the configuration of wireless LAN networking interfaces on the fly,  to  get  their
       current  configuration, to get statistics and diagnose them. They are described in their own man page, see below for ref-
       erences.
       Wireless configuration is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in the future the configuration
       procedure for a few common distributions. For the time being, check the file DISTRIBUTIONS.txt included with the Wireless
       Tools package.

DEBIAN 3.0
       In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking devices using the network  configuration  tool  ifup-
       down(8).

       File : /etc/network/interfaces

       Form : wireless-<function> <value>
              wireless-essid Home
              wireless-mode Ad-Hoc

       See also :
              /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
              /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian

SuSE 8.0
       SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts.

       Tool : Yast2

       File : /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
              /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-*

       Form : WIRELESS_<function>=<value>
              WIRELESS_ESSID="Home"
              WIRELESS_MODE=Ad-Hoc

       See also :
              man ifup
              info scpm

ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
       If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia package, you can use this method.

       File : /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts

       Form : *,*,*,*)
                  ESSID="Home"
                  MODE="Ad-Hoc"
                  ;;

       See also :
              /etc/pcmcia/wireless
              File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package

AUTHOR
       Jean Tourrilhes - jtAThpl.com
       http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

SEE ALSO
       iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).



wireless-tools                                            4 March 2004                                               WIRELESS(7)