wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions

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In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking devices using the network configuration tool ifupdown(8). File:/etc/network/interfacesForm: wireless-<function><value> wireless-essid Home wireless-mode Ad-Hoc Seealso:/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools/usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian

The WirelessExtensions 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 detail in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto. The WirelessTools 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 references. Wirelessconfiguration 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.

wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions

If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia package, you can use this method. File:/etc/pcmcia/wireless.optsForm: *,*,*,*) ESSID="Home" MODE="Ad-Hoc" ;; Seealso:/etc/pcmcia/wireless File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package

iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8). wireless-tools 4 March 2004 WIRELESS(7)

SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts. Tool:Yast2File:/etc/sysconfig/network/wireless/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-*Form: WIRELESS_<function>=<value> WIRELESS_ESSID="Home" WIRELESS_MODE=Ad-Hoc Seealso: man ifup info scpm