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WE865-DUAL Product Description
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• Automatic keep alive packets
• Autonomous
scanning
3.2 Linux WiFi software framework
WE865-DUAL Linux package is made up of different components:
WiFi Driver – WE865-Dual Linux WiFi device driver
Wireless Tools – Set of tools for configuring and managing WE865-Dual
Wpa Supplicant – Tool for configuring and managing WPA/WPA2 security
WE865-Dual WiFi module is controlled, under Linux OS, by the means of a WiFi device driver loaded
into Kernel Space.
WE865-Dual functionalities are made available to User Space applications through Linux Wireless
Extensions (WE), kernel space generic APIs allowing a driver to expose to the user space
configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs.
Customer applications can access WE865-Dual through symple system calls to shell commands such
as Wireless Tools.
For more details see the WE865-DUAL Software User Guide.