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author | James Rayner <james@archlinux.org> | 2009-05-12 15:14:40 +0200 |
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committer | James Rayner <james@archlinux.org> | 2009-05-12 15:14:40 +0200 |
commit | d60f370571af5413b6512b1dd40c7ace0e98ef54 (patch) | |
tree | 936ab49e9e9d637ed02438dbd0e336831a8f28ea /doc/wireless-dbus | |
parent | dd485367068c8451787045e14bc7ce8a1257135d (diff) | |
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Add documentation for both types of ethernet and wireless connections
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diff --git a/doc/wireless-dbus b/doc/wireless-dbus new file mode 100644 index 0000000..918256d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/wireless-dbus @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +% WIRELESS-DBUS netcfg manuals +% Arch Linux +% + +# 'wireless-dbus' Connection manual +## Description +This connection method uses wpa_supplicant's dbus interface to configure a wireless network connection. + +This connection uses the 'ethernet-iproute' connection after successful association and thus supports all of it's options. + +## Options +INTERFACE (required) +: The wireless interface to configure +SECURITY (required) +: One of 'wpa', 'wep', 'none' or 'wpa-config' +KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only) +: Wireless encryption key. +ESSID (required) +: Name of network to connect to. +TIMEOUT +: Time to wait for association. Defaults to 15 seconds. + +### WPA options +WPA_CONF (for SECURITY of 'wpa-config' only) +: Path to wpa_supplicant configuration. Defaults to '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' +WPA_DRIVER +: wpa_supplicant driver to be used. Defaults to 'wext' +WPA_OPTS +: Extra arguments for wpa_supplicant not specified otherwise. |