WE866C3 Wi-Fi Network Interface Card (NIC) User Guide
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5.
WIRELESS NETWORK OPERATIONS
This chapter provides step by step procedure to setup wireless network connectivity and
perform data transfer. Prepare the system (refer Chapter
– “
4 Building and Loading the
Software
”) before configuring the WLAN interface.
Following are the steps to connect to the wireless network and test data transfer, once the
WLAN interface is configured:
NOTE:
Configuration instructions are only for reference and contain typical
example. For more details refer
– “Linux documentation”.
WE866C3 WLAN Interface Details
If the driver is loaded correctly, WE866C3 device will be listed in the wireless interfaces
present in the host system. WE866C3 module will register two wireless interfaces wlan0
& p2p0. This is verified using the following command:
Ifconfig
The following command is used to find the physical device corresponding to WE866C3
WLAN interface:
iw dev
The following command is used to check the features and commands supported by all
devices:
iw phy
STA Mode
Telit WE866C3 module supports 802.11 b/g/n & a/ac modes in STA operations. STA mode
supports connecting to both 2.4 GHz & 5GHz BSS networks.
Following are the steps required to configure and test wireless interface in station mode:
1. Configure DHCP
a. Open configuration file and make sure DHCP is enabled.
vi /etc/network/interfaces
b. File should contain below two lines:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
2. Restart networking
/etc/init.d/networking restart
3. Create or update the configuration file. In STA mode, configuration file is common
between the 802.11b/g/n or 802.11a/ac networks.
Typical configuration file contains the following references:
a. Open Mode (for example sta_open_con.conf file)
ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1
network={
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