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Using schemes it is possible to \ define several profiles for different situations and hardware combinations. \ The setting string may contain the globbing characters '*' and '?' for \ matching.\n\n \ \ Schemes are identified by\n\n \ \ Scheme name\n\n \ A simple string identifying a situation like e.g.\n \ \thome\n \ \toffice\n \ \t*\n \ Mostly defaults to *\n\n \ \ Socket \n\n \ The device socket number, usually 0 or 1. \n \ Mostly defaults to *\n\n \ \ Instance\n\n \ ???\n \ Mostly defaults to *\n\n \ \ HW-Address\n\n \ The hardware address of the card. This makes it possible to \ identify different hardware vendors and to set hardware \ specific settings. Here the globbing characters help to \ match a whole vendor device address range like e.g.\n \ \t00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:02:2D:*\n \ which matches almost all original Lucent Wavelan cards.")); general_help=g_strdup( _("General Settings\n\n \ Info:\n\n \ \ Free form informational string, has no function.\n\n \ \ ESSID:\n\n \ \ Network name, sometimes also called Domain ID. Identifies your network, most \ WLAN cards get this automatically from the access point in managed mode, other \ cards require to specify a name. In Ad-Hoc mode the same name \ should be specified on all participating nodes.\n\n \ \ NWID:\n\n \ \ Network ID, specifies nodes belonging to the same cell.\n\n \ \ Mode:\n\n\ \ Valid choices are:\n\n \ \ Ad-Hoc\n\n\ \ \tSometimes also called\n \ \tDemo mode, nodes\n \ \twithout access point\n\n \ \ Managed\n\n \ \ \tManaged network with\n \ \taccess point\n\n \ \ Master\n\n \ \tThe nodes acts as master or\n \ \taccess point, not supported\n \ \tby all cards.\n\n \ \ Repeater\n\n \ \tforwarder, not supported\n \ \tby all cards.\n\n \ \ Secondary\n\n \ \tThe node acts as secondary\n \ \tor backup master, not\n \ \tsupported by all cards.\n\n \ \ Auto\n\n \ \ \tTry to automatically\n \ \tdetermine operation mode\n \ \tor use card's default mode.")); rfparams_help=g_strdup( _("RF Parameters \n\n \ \ Channel specification\n\n \ The WaveLAN frequency band is \ from 2.4GHz up to 2.4836GHz \ is devided into up to 14 \ channels. Not all cards support \ all channels. \n \ For Ad-Hoc mode a fixed \ common channel / freqency for \ the participating nodes has to be \ specified. For some access \ point - card combinations it can \ be necessary to specify the \ access point's control channel \ here.\n \ The channel can be either \ specified by it's frequency or \ channel number.\n\n\ \ Rate\n\n \ Specifies the transmission rate, \ depending on the card \ 1MBit/sec, or 11MBit/sec are \ supported. Auto selects the \ card's default rate.")); wep_help=g_strdup( _("WEP Encryption\n\n \ \ Encryption\n\n \ \ On - Enable link encryption\n \ Off - Disable link encryption\n\n \ \ Mode\n\n \ \ Open\n \ \tAlso accept not encrypted\n \ \tdata packets\n \ Restricted\n \ \tOnly accept correctly\n \ \tencrypted data packets.")); enckey_help=g_strdup( _("Encryption Keys\n\n \ \ Encryption keys can be specified either as HEX encoded strings like \n\ \t0123-4567-89\n \ or\n \ \t0a2d46ff3c\n \ or as simple strings which will be converted to numerical keys automatically.\n\n \ \ Up to 4 different keys can be configured but only one of them \ can be active at a time.")); expert_help=g_strdup( _("Expert settings\n\n \ \ All WLAN settings are performed through two utility programs \ called 'iwconfig' and 'iwpriv'. Those utilities provide even more \ options than are usually necessary to get your WLAN up and running. \ If one of those seldomly options has to be used it can be specified \ here as it would be on the utilitie's commandline.\n\n \ \ For example some Orinico based need an extra iwpriv option to \ properly enable Ad-Hoc or\n\n \ Master mode:\n \ Ad-Hoc:\n \ \tset_port3 1\n \ Master:\n \ \tset_port3 0\n \ \ Additionally options for the iwspy utility can be specified. \n\n \ \ Be aware of the fact that wrong options can cause the settings \ process to fail, not only the additional settings!\n\n \ \ For more information on the iwconfig, iwspy and iwpriv \ utilities please consult the extra documentation.")); general_help_simple=g_strdup( _("Basic Settings\n\n\ ESSID:\n\n\ \ Network name, sometimes also called Domain ID. Identifies your network, most \ WLAN cards get this automatically from the access point in managed mode, other \ cards require to specify a name. In Ad-Hoc mode the same name \ should be specified on all participating nodes.\n\n \ \ Mode:\n\n\ \ Valid choices are:\n\n\ \ \tAd-Hoc\n\n\ \ \tSometimes also called\n\ \tDemo mode, nodes\n\ \twithout access point\n\n\ \ \tManaged\n\n\ \ \tManaged network with\n\ \taccess point\n\n \ \ Channel:\n\n\ \ Usually the wireless LAN card detects the channel automatically in \ infrastructure mode. \ In Ad-Hoc you need to set it to the same setting like any other \ node in the desired net.\ ")); }