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diff --git a/doc/wireless b/doc/wireless new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20ced91 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/wireless @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +% WIRELESS netcfg manuals +% Arch Linux +% + +# 'wireless' Connection manual +## Description +This connection method uses wireless_tools and wpa_supplicant to configure a wireless network connection. + +The new 'wireless-dbus' connection method is preferred over this + +This connection uses the 'ethernet' connection after successful association and thus supports all of it's options. + +## Options +INTERFACE (required) +: The wireless interface to configure +SECURITY (required for security of 'wep', 'wpa' or 'wpa-config') +: One of 'wpa', 'wep', 'none' or 'wpa-config'. Defaults to 'none' +KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only) +: Wireless encryption key. +ESSID (required) +: Name of network to connect to. +TIMEOUT (optional) +: Time to wait for association. Defaults to 15 seconds. +SCAN (optional) +: 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'. +IWCONFIG (optional) +: Arguments to pass to iwconfig before attempting to configure the connection. For example, BSSID. + +### WPA options +WPA_CONF (for SECURITY of 'wpa-config' only) +: Path to wpa_supplicant configuration. Defaults to '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' +WPA_OPTS +: Extra arguments for wpa_supplicant not specified otherwise. Any option here must specify wpa_supplicant driver. Defaults to '-Dwext'. |