= 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.

 * [[/modes|Wireless modes]] - modes you can set your wireless card to operate in
 * [[en/users/Documentation/iw|iw]] - new nl80211 based command line interface ([[en/developers/Documentation/Glossary#CLI|CLI]]) configuration utility
 * [[/rfkill|rfkill]] - simple tool for rfkill debugging/settings
 * [[en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA|crda]] - new central regulatory domain agent, nl80211 based userspace regulatory db agent
 * [[en/users/Documentation/hostapd|hostapd]] - hostapd is a ''IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator''
 * [[en/users/Documentation/wpa_supplicant|wpa_supplicant]] - wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant and SME (initiates MLME commands)
 * [[en/users/Documentation/WoW|WoW]] - Wake on Wireless LAN support

= Wireless managers =

This is the list of available known wireless managers you can use in distributions

 * [[en/users/Documentation/NetworkManager|NetworkManager]] - GUI based connection manager with wireless support
 * [[en/users/Documentation/wicd|wicd]] - Simple GUI based connection manager with wireless support
 * [[en/users/Documentation/connman|connman]] - GUI based connection manager with wireless support, designed with embedded devices in mind

= Wireless sniffers / intrusion testing / packet injection utilities =

  * [[http://www.wireshark.org/|wireshark]] - a packet analyzer
  * [[http://www.kismetwireless.net/|kismet]] - an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system
  * [[en/users/Documentation/packetspammer|packetspammer]]- a mac80211 packet injection utility 
  * [[http://www.aircrack-ng.org/|aircrack-ng]] an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys intrusion testing program

= Helping users and developers =

Please consider reading these sections to help developers help you more efficiently.

 * [[/Reporting_bugs|Reporting bugs]] - How to report a bug
 * [[en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/tracing|Tracing mac80211]] - how to trace mac80211
 * [[en/developers/Testing/wifi-test|wifi-test project]] - utilities to help test your wireless driver
 * [[en/users/Documentation/Fix_Propagation|Understanding bug fix propagation]] - should help to understand the flow of a fix

= 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.

 * [[en/developers/Documentation/Wireless-Extensions|Wireless-Extensions]] - what are they?
 * [[en/developers/Documentation/mac80211|mac80211]] - New wireless driver API for [[en/developers/Documentation/Glossary#SoftMAC|SoftMAC]] devices
 * [[en/developers/Documentation/cfg80211|cfg80211]] - new driver configuration API
 * [[en/developers/Documentation/nl80211|nl80211]] - new userspace <--> kernelspace wireless driver communication transport