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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Wireless network programming in Unix (question) Post 302447563 by Corona688 on Monday 23rd of August 2010 02:30:31 PM
Old 08-23-2010
The computer gets to control which network it connects to, which is very different from ethernet over copper, but once it's actually connected it acts just like any network. UDP tutorials and the like all apply perfectly fine to wireless --as well it should, otherwise we'd all need special new wireless-enabled clients and servers for mundane things like browsing the web!

This is because it's done in layers. The only program on your computer that needs to care whether it's wireless ethernet or not is the one that picks which wireless network connection your card connects to. Other programs just treat it like any other ethernet connection.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

ifcfg-wireless

IFCFG(5)						       Network configuration							  IFCFG(5)

NAME

       ifcfg-wireless - wireless LAN network interface configuration

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-*
       /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-type-wlan

GENERAL

       Wireless  networks  need  some additional configuration data compared to ethernet ones. Therefore additional variables for ifcfg files were
       introduced.  All wireless LAN specific variables are described in the ifcfg template file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg.template. It is pos-
       sible to configure more than one wireless network accepted for association. To achieve this add suffix _1 to all wireless variables for the
       second network, _2 for the this, and so on. Example: WIRELESS_ESSID_1="second_net" You can have up to  ten  wireless  networks  configured.
       Some  wireless  variables  are not applicable to a single wireless network but are global to the interface. The description of the variable
       points this out.

BUGS

       Please report bugs at <http://www.suse.de/feedback>

AUTHOR

       Christian Zoz <zoz@suse.de> -- ifup script
       Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz> -- ifup script
       Bjoern Jacke -- ifup script
       Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de> -- ifup manual page
       Michal Ludvig <mludvig@suse.cz> -- tunnel support
       Joachim Gleissner <jg@suse.de> -- wireless support

SEE ALSO

       ifup(8).

sysconfig							   December 2005							  IFCFG(5)
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