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WE865-DUAL Software User Guide
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2.2.2 Linux WiFi software framework
WE865-DUAL Linux WiFi package is made up of different components:
 WiFi Driver – WE865-DUAL Linux WiFi device driver
 Wireless Tools – Set of tools for configuring and managing WE865-DUAL
 Wpa Supplicant – Tool for configuring and managing WPA/WPA2 security
WE865-DUAL WiFi module is controlled, under Linux OS, by the means of a WiFi device driver loaded
into Kernel Space.
WE865-DUAL functionalities are made available to User Space applications through Linux Wireless
Extensions (WE), kernel space generic APIs allowing a driver to expose to the user space
configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs.
Customer applications can control/configure WE865-DUAL through simple system calls to shell
commands such as Wireless Tools and Wpa Supplicant.
The image below shows the software framework used to configure and control WE865-DUAL.