wireless

section | description | multi | options
wifi-device | Wifi Device Settings | true |
name | type | required | default | description
channel | integer or “auto” | yes | auto | Specifies the wireless channel to use. “auto” defaults to the lowest available channel.
hwmode | string |  |  | Selects the wireless protocol to use, possible values are 11b, 11g, and 11a. Note that 11ng and 11na are not available options.
country | varies |  |  | Specifies the country code, affects the available channels and transmission powers. For type broadcom a two letter country code is used (EN or DE). The madwifi driver expects a numeric code.
band | string |  |  | Whether radio operates at 2.4GHz or 5GHz.
bandwidth | integer |  | 80 | Frequency at which the radio operates.
wifi-iface | Wifi Interface Settings | true |
name | type | required | default | description
device | string | yes | (first device id) | Specifies the used wireless adapter, must refer to one of the defined wifi-device sections
ifname | string | no | (driver default) | Specifies a custom name for the Wi-Fi interface, which is otherwise automatically named.
mode | string | yes | ap | Selects the operation mode of the wireless network interface controller. Possible values are ap, sta, adhoc, wds, monitor, mesh
encryption | string |  |  | Wireless encryption method. Possible values are: none, wep, psk, psk2. For WEP station mode the default is “open system” authentication. Use wep+shared or wep+open to force a specific mode.