NOTE: this page is for archival only, see the note at the end of the page.

Documentation

Here we start documentation for users for all new wireless utilities. The list is short, but we'll try to add more as we go.

  • Wireless modes - modes you can set your wireless card to operate in

  • iw - new nl80211 based command line interface (CLI) configuration utility

  • crda - central regulatory domain agent, userspace regulatory db agent

  • NetworkManager - GUI based connection manager with wireless support

  • hostapd - hostapd is a IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator

To the very curious user

In case you want to read up on what things are being advanced within Linux wireless. This should help users become familiar with our latest developments.


This is a static dump of the wiki, taken after locking it in January 2015. The new wiki is at https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/.
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