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

• 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.

• Wireless-Extensions - what are they?

• mac80211 - New wireless driver API for SoftMAC devices

• cfg80211 - new driver configuration API

• nl80211 - new userspace <–> kernelspace wireless driver communication transport