Software Manual

WE865-DUAL Software User Guide

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6 Wireless Tools

Linux Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to configure and manage WE865-DUAL by linux

command shell.

Wireless Tools package includes the following executables:

 iwconfig manipulates the basic wireless parameters

 iwlist allows to initiate scanning and list frequencies, bit-rates, encryption keys...

 ifrename allows to name interfaces based on various static criteria

 iwevent allows to display wireless events

 iwgetid shows the ESSID or NWID of the specified device

Please have a look to paragraph 1.4.1 for information about Wireless Tools License.

The following paragraphs describe WT commands as shown in man pages.

6.1 iwconfig

iwconfig is similar to ifconfig, but is dedicated to the wireless interfaces. It is used to set the

parameters of the network interface which are specific to the wireless operation (for example: the

frequency). Iwconfig can also be used to display those parameters, and the wireless statistics

(extracted from /proc/net/wireless).

All these parameters and statistics are device dependent. Each driver will provide only some of them

depending on hardware support, and the range of values may change. Please refer to the man page

of each device for details.

Synopsis

iwconfig [interface]

iwconfig interface [essid X] [nwid N] [mode M] [freq F]

[channel C][sens S ][ap A ][nick NN ]

[rate R] [rts RT] [frag FT] [txpower T]

[enc E] [key K] [power P] [retry R]

[commit]

iwconfig –help

iwconfig –version