diff --git a/README b/README index 896abf07..132ea1fa 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -91,3 +91,24 @@ needs to be created: For now it is important that the netlink monitor interace is actually named nlmon. Future version might relax this requirement. + + +Simulating devices +================== + +The Linux driver mac80211_hwsim provides the functionality to simulate +Wireless devices using fake virtual air. Just load the module. + + modprobe mac80211_hwsim radios=0 + +Provding the radios=0 is important since otherwise it starts out with +two new Wireless radios by default. + +With the provided hwsim utility it is now possible to add and remove +virtual radio devices. + + hwsim --create + hwsim --destroy= + +The radio id assigned to each virtual device is its internal id used +by the Wireless device.