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 variety of tools and
       configuration files. It is documented in more details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
       The Wireless Tools are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their
       own man page (see below).
       Wireless  configuration	is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in the future the configuration procedure for a
       few common distributions (when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check the various files included with the  Wireless
       Tools package.

DEBIAN 3.0
       Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts.

       File : /etc/network/interfaces

       Form : wireless_<function> <value>
	      wireless_essid Home
	      wireless_mode ad_hoc

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

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="MY_ESSID"
		  MODE="Managed"
		  ;;

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

AUTHOR

       Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
       http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

SEE ALSO

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

net-tools							   12 July 2002 						       WIRELESS(7)