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diff --git a/doc/wireless.html b/doc/wireless.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d78d7b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/wireless.html @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +<h1 id="wireless-connection-manual" +>'wireless' Connection manual</h1 +><h2 id="description" +>Description</h2 +><p +>This connection method uses wireless_tools and wpa_supplicant to configure a wireless network connection.</p +><p +>The new 'wireless-dbus' connection method is preferred over this</p +><p +>This connection uses the 'ethernet' connection after successful association and thus supports all of it's options.</p +><h2 id="options" +>Options</h2 +><dl +><dt + >INTERFACE (required)</dt + ><dd + >The wireless interface to configure</dd + ><dt + >SECURITY (required for security of 'wep', 'wpa' or 'wpa-config')</dt + ><dd + >One of 'wpa', 'wep', 'none' or 'wpa-config'. Defaults to 'none'</dd + ><dt + >KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only)</dt + ><dd + >Wireless encryption key.</dd + ><dt + >ESSID (this or AP is required)</dt + ><dd + >Name of network to connect to.</dd + ><dt + >AP (this or ESSID is required)</dt + ><dd + >AP of the network to connect to.</dd + ><dt + >TIMEOUT (optional)</dt + ><dd + >Time to wait for association. Defaults to 15 seconds.</dd + ><dt + >SCAN (optional)</dt + ><dd + >Scan for a wireless network rather than blindly attempting to connect. Hidden SSID networks do not appear in a scan. Enable with 'yes'. Defaults to 'no'.</dd + ><dt + >IWCONFIG (optional)</dt + ><dd + >Arguments to pass to iwconfig before attempting to configure the connection. For example, BSSID.</dd + ></dl +><h3 id="wpa-options" +>WPA options</h3 +><dl +><dt + >WPA_CONF (for SECURITY of 'wpa-config' only)</dt + ><dd + >Path to wpa_supplicant configuration. Defaults to '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'</dd + ><dt + >WPA_OPTS</dt + ><dd + >Extra arguments for wpa_supplicant not specified otherwise. Any option here must specify wpa_supplicant driver. Defaults to '-Dwext'.</dd + ><dt + >WPA_GROUP</dt + ><dd + >Group that has authority for on-the-fly config files created when SECURITY="wpa"</dd + ></dl +> |