From fc22b3d6507c6745911b9dfcc68f1e665ae13dbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:43:11 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 4.22.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- upstream/debian-bookworm/man7/wireless.7 | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 128 insertions(+) create mode 100644 upstream/debian-bookworm/man7/wireless.7 (limited to 'upstream/debian-bookworm/man7/wireless.7') diff --git a/upstream/debian-bookworm/man7/wireless.7 b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man7/wireless.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7d51dc7e --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man7/wireless.7 @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +.\" 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\- " " +.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_ "" = "" +.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). -- cgit v1.2.3