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| author |   Brian Evans <grknight@tuffmail.com> | 2016-12-21 21:47:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Brian Evans <grknight@tuffmail.com> | 2016-12-21 21:47:15 -0500 |
| commit | 6e81ff9f85736180516941e630b1db78bd9bf2a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 35aafc8bdd62bc9b692b6fe5aece40c1aa291be5 /doc | |
| parent | Bump to 0.5.1. (diff) | |
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Add new iw module for wireless to supersede iwconfigiw
For Open, WEP and ad-hoc, iw is the current control tool for modern
mac80211 based wireless devices.
This module is 100% compatible with the net/iwconfig.sh syntax but
updates the commands and detection
Also updates documentation about how to use this module
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/net.example.Linux.in | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/net.example.Linux.in b/doc/net.example.Linux.in index c895a17..bff7ede 100644 --- a/doc/net.example.Linux.in +++ b/doc/net.example.Linux.in @@ -168,9 +168,13 @@ #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # WIRELESS (802.11 support) -# Wireless can be provided by iwconfig or wpa_supplicant -# wpa_supplicant is preferred, use the modules directive to prefer iwconfig. -#modules="iwconfig" +# Wireless can be provided by iw, iwconfig or wpa_supplicant +# wpa_supplicant is preferred, use the modules directive to prefer iw or iwconfig. +#modules="iw" # Most modern drivers +#modules="iwconfig" # Older WEXT only drivers, i.e. ipw2x00 +# +# iw +# emerge net-wireless/iw # # iwconfig # emerge net-wireless/wireless-tools |