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<title>Introduction</title>
<para> The &kwifimanager; suite is a set of tools which allows you to
manage your wireless
&LAN; Network Interface card (PC-Card, PCI or miniPCI) under the K
Desktop Environment. It
- provides information about your current connection and lets you set up
up to four independent
- configurations. If you are in a place where none of your preconfigured
networks is available,
+ provides information about your current connection and lets you set up
up to ten independent
+ configurations and use up to four configrations that are pre-configured
by distribution-specific
+ scripts. If you are in a place where none of your preconfigured networks
is available,
you can also dynamically switch to an available network with almost no
configuration effort.
&kwifimanager; supports every wireless &LAN; card that uses the wireless
extensions
- interface. This includes virtually all wireless &LAN; card that is
operational at all
+ interface. This includes virtually all wireless &LAN; cards that are
operational at all
under the &Linux; operating system.</para>
</chapter>
<chapter id="using">
@@ -64,7 +65,10 @@
the command prompt of a console window or via the K Menu, where it is
located by default in
the<guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu> group. If &kwifimanager; is
already running
but minimised to the system tray then it can be restored by clicking
once on the <link
- linkend="systrayicon">system tray icon</link>. The &GUI; elements of
the application
+ linkend="systrayicon">system tray icon</link>. If there is more than
one wireless &LAN;
+ card in your system, just open more than one instance of
&kwifimanager;: every instance
+ will show information about a different card automatically.
+ The &GUI; elements of the application
are explained in the following subsections.</para>
<sect2 id="kwifimanager-main">
<title>Main window</title>
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@
out of range and can not communicate to the infrastructure
network.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para> a laptop that is connected to a white box means that a
connection to an
+ <para> a laptop that is connected to an access point means
that a connection to an
access point is established.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -143,8 +147,8 @@
done on purpose to show that the cell you are connected to is
not an actual physical
device, but rather an imaginary access point without a real
physical address.</para>
<informalexample>
- <para> Your card is the first card that enters Ad-Hoc mode.
Then all other cards
- entering Ad-Hoc mode will see your MAC-address, slightly
modified: instead
+ <para> Your card is the first card that enters Ad-Hoc mode
with a given SSID. Then all other cards
+ entering Ad-Hoc mode with the same SSID will see your
MAC-address, slightly modified: instead
of<computeroutput>00:xx:yy:zz:aa:bb</computeroutput> it
will
show<computeroutput>02:xx:yy:zz:aa:bb</computeroutput>.
This behavior is
intentional.</para>
@@ -242,7 +246,7 @@
level in the statistics window by unselecting <menuchoice>
<guimenu> Config </guimenu>
<guimenuitem> Show noise level in statistics </guimenuitem>
- </menuchoice> in KWiFiManagers main window.</para>
+ </menuchoice> in the &kwifimanager; main window.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="config-edit">
<title>Configuration Editor</title>
@@ -298,7 +302,7 @@
<guimenuitem>Show Strength Number in System Tray</guimenuitem>.</para>
<para>If you have configured &kwifimanager; to stay in the system tray
when clicking on the
<guibutton>X</guibutton> button, the icon will stay in the tray
persistently unless you really exit
- the application by clicking on <guimenu>File</guimenu>,
<guimenuitem>Close</guimenuitem>.</para>
+ the application by clicking on <guimenu>File</guimenu>,
<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>.</para>
<para>You can always hide the main application to the system tray by
clicking on the tray icon. Similarly,
to restore the main application from the tray, just click on it
once.</para>
</sect1>
@@ -311,7 +315,7 @@
shown at any time by changing the <guilabel>Number of
Configurations</guilabel> entry.
If you have configured your wireless settings with a
distribution-specific tool, chances are good
that the &kcontrolcenter; module will automatically detect this and
also read in and show that
- configuration. In any case these configurations will be read-only,
because it is the distributions
+ configuration. In any case these configurations will be read-only,
because it is the distribution's
job to handle updating these settings and the module should not
interfere with their internal magic.
Up to five additional preset configurations can be shown in addition
to the ten
that are self-definable. These configurations will have the name
<guilabel>Vendor x</guilabel>
@@ -395,7 +399,7 @@
receive packets that are encrypted with <emphasis>any</emphasis>
of the keys.</para>
<tip><para>You can achieve asymetrical encryption (different
keys for sending and receiving)
if you configure your access point to send packets with a
different key than the card. Just make
- sure that the partner stations has the required key in any one
of its key slots.</para></tip>
+ sure that the partner station has the required key in any one of
its key slots.</para></tip>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -412,7 +416,7 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
- <guilabel>Crytpo keys:</guilabel>
+ <guilabel>Crypto keys:</guilabel>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>This box lets you specify the secret keys to use for
cryptography. To protect
@@ -424,7 +428,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para>Be aware that the built-in cryptography support (named WEP for
Wireless Equivalent
+ <para>Be aware that the built-in cryptography support (named WEP for
Wired Equivalent
Privacy) is not very safe at all. See <xref linkend="wep"/> for
details.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="config_power">
@@ -504,7 +508,7 @@
standards for MAC addresses have a place reserved for such (rare)
occasions: MAC addresses that are
not globally valid have a bit set to one that shows that these
addresses are
<quote>locally administered</quote>. This bit is the second bit in
transmit order, and the seventh
- bit in logical order and will hence raise the number from 00 to
02.</para>
+ bit in logical order and will hence raise the number of the MAC's first
digit block from 00 to 02.</para>
<para>You can compare this sort of address to the non-global IP
addresses like<quote>192.168.*.*.</quote>
</para>
<para>So, the implementors of wireless networking agreed to give
these<quote>virtual</quote>
