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+.\" Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - 2002 - 2004
+.\" wireless.7
+.\"
+.TH WIRELESS 7 "4 March 2004" "wireless-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\"
+.\" NAME part
+.\"
+.SH NAME
+wireless \- Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
+.\"
+.\" SYNOPSIS part
+.\"
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B iwconfig
+.br
+.B iwpriv \-a
+.br
+.\"
+.\" DESCRIPTION part
+.\"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B 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 detail in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
+.br
+The
+.B 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 references.
+.br
+.B 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 part
+.\"
+.SH DEBIAN 3.0
+In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking
+devices using the network configuration tool
+.BR ifupdown (8).
+.TP
+.B File :
+.I /etc/network/interfaces
+.TP
+.B Form :
+.RI wireless\- "<function> <value>"
+.br
+wireless\-essid Home
+.br
+wireless\-mode Ad\-Hoc
+.TP
+.B See also :
+.I /etc/network/if\-pre\-up.d/wireless\-tools
+.br
+.I /usr/share/doc/wireless\-tools/README.Debian
+.\"
+.\" SuSE 8.0 part
+.\"
+.SH SuSE 8.0
+SuSE 8.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their
+network scripts.
+.TP
+.B Tool :
+.B Yast2
+.TP
+.B File :
+.I /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
+.br
+.I /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg\-*
+.TP
+.B Form :
+.RI WIRELESS_ "<function>" = "<value>"
+.br
+WIRELESS_ESSID="Home"
+.br
+WIRELESS_MODE=Ad\-Hoc
+.TP
+.B See also :
+man ifup
+.br
+info scpm
+.\"
+.\" PCMCIA part
+.\"
+.SH ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
+If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia
+package, you can use this method.
+.TP
+.B File :
+.I /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
+.TP
+.B Form :
+*,*,*,*)
+.br
+ ESSID="Home"
+.br
+ MODE="Ad-Hoc"
+.br
+ ;;
+.TP
+.B See also :
+.I /etc/pcmcia/wireless
+.br
+File
+.I PCMCIA.txt
+part of Wireless Tools package
+.\"
+.\" AUTHOR part
+.\"
+.SH AUTHOR
+Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hpl.hp.com
+.br
+.I http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
+.\"
+.\" SEE ALSO part
+.\"
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR iwconfig (8),
+.BR iwlist (8),
+.BR iwspy (8),
+.BR iwpriv (8),
+.BR iwevent (8).