129 lines
2.5 KiB
Groff
Executable File
129 lines
2.5 KiB
Groff
Executable File
.\" Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - 2002 - 2004
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.\" wireless.7
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.\"
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.TH WIRELESS 7 "4 March 2004" "wireless-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.\"
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.\" NAME part
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.\"
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.SH NAME
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wireless \- Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
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.\"
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.\" SYNOPSIS part
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.\"
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B iwconfig
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.br
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.B iwpriv \-a
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.br
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.\"
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.\" DESCRIPTION part
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.\"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B Wireless Extensions
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is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces.
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It is composed of a variety of tools and configuration files. It is
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documented in more detail in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
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.br
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The
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.B Wireless Tools
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are used to change the configuration of wireless LAN networking
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interfaces on the fly, to get their current configuration, to get
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statistics and diagnose them. They are described in their own man
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page, see below for references.
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.br
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.B Wireless configuration
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is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in
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the future the configuration procedure for a few common
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distributions. For the time being, check the file DISTRIBUTIONS.txt
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included with the Wireless Tools package.
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.\"
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.\" DEBIAN 3.0 part
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.\"
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.SH DEBIAN 3.0
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In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking
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devices using the network configuration tool
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.BR ifupdown (8).
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.TP
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.B File :
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.I /etc/network/interfaces
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.TP
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.B Form :
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.RI wireless\- "<function> <value>"
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.br
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wireless\-essid Home
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.br
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wireless\-mode Ad\-Hoc
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.TP
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.B See also :
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.I /etc/network/if\-pre\-up.d/wireless\-tools
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.br
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.I /usr/share/doc/wireless\-tools/README.Debian
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.\"
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.\" SuSE 8.0 part
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.\"
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.SH SuSE 8.0
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SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their
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network scripts.
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.TP
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.B Tool :
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.B Yast2
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.TP
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.B File :
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.I /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
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.br
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.I /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg\-*
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.TP
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.B Form :
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.RI WIRELESS_ "<function>" = "<value>"
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.br
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WIRELESS_ESSID="Home"
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.br
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WIRELESS_MODE=Ad\-Hoc
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.TP
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.B See also :
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man ifup
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.br
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info scpm
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.\"
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.\" PCMCIA part
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.\"
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.SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
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If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia
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package, you can use this method.
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.TP
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.B File :
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.I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
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.TP
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.B Form :
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*,*,*,*)
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.br
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ESSID="Home"
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.br
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MODE="Ad-Hoc"
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.br
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;;
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.TP
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.B See also :
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.I /etc/pcmcia/wireless
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.br
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File
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.I PCMCIA.txt
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part of Wireless Tools package
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.\"
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.\" AUTHOR part
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.\"
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.SH AUTHOR
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Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hpl.hp.com
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.br
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.I http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
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.\"
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.\" SEE ALSO part
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.\"
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR iwconfig (8),
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.BR iwlist (8),
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.BR iwspy (8),
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.BR iwpriv (8),
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.BR iwevent (8).
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