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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/mac80211_hwsim.rst index 3566a725d19c..d2266ce5534e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README +++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/mac80211_hwsim.rst @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ +:orphan: + +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +=================================================================== mac80211_hwsim - software simulator of 802.11 radio(s) for mac80211 -Copyright (c) 2008, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> +=================================================================== + +:Copyright: |copy| 2008, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as @@ -7,6 +15,7 @@ published by the Free Software Foundation. Introduction +============ mac80211_hwsim is a Linux kernel module that can be used to simulate arbitrary number of IEEE 802.11 radios for mac80211. It can be used to @@ -43,6 +52,7 @@ regardless of channel. Simple example +============== This example shows how to use mac80211_hwsim to simulate two radios: one to act as an access point and the other as a station that @@ -50,17 +60,19 @@ associates with the AP. hostapd and wpa_supplicant are used to take care of WPA2-PSK authentication. In addition, hostapd is also processing access point side of association. +:: + -# Build mac80211_hwsim as part of kernel configuration + # Build mac80211_hwsim as part of kernel configuration -# Load the module -modprobe mac80211_hwsim + # Load the module + modprobe mac80211_hwsim -# Run hostapd (AP) for wlan0 -hostapd hostapd.conf + # Run hostapd (AP) for wlan0 + hostapd hostapd.conf -# Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1 -wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf + # Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1 + wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf More test cases are available in hostap.git: |