Chapter 7. WI-FI FOR LINUX AND UNIX
Wi-Fi networking is not limited to computers that use a Windows operating system. Computers running Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X can all support Wi-Fi, if you can find the driver software for your network adapter. A TCP/IP network doesn't care what kind of operating system the computers connected to the network are using. It's just receiving bits and bytes from a computer port and moving them around. All of the most popular versions and distributions of both Linux and Unix (including Mac OS X) include wireless networking configuration and control tools that perform the same functions as the Windows utilities described ...
Get The Book of Wireless, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
