% WIRELESS netcfg manuals 
% Arch Linux
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# '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'. 
WPA_GROUP
:   Group that has authority for on-the-fly config files created when SECURITY="wpa"