Use the Wi-Fi driver
The owl device driver implements and reuses tools and interfaces that are de-facto standard in Linux systems. The pages below describes a number of common tools.
The Wireless Tools provide a set of console commands that can be used from the host platform in order to access a Wi-Fi device through the Wireless Extension API from the command line. Most of the configuration of the wireless device can be done with the provided iwconfig and iwlist commands.
The WPA supplicant can be configured to control the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the owl device. The configuration is usuallyperformed in a configuration file, e.g. /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.
This page will briefly describe how to evaluate the throughput performance of the owl device driver and the HD Wireless Wi-Fi device.
In Linux, network device configuration is usually specified in /etc/network/interfaces. This allows the usage of the tools ifup and ifdown.
Topic revision: r2 - 2010-10-08 - 14:09:15 -
AndersGrahn