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Wireless Communication
Wireless LAN can be used to establish communication between your SUSE Linux
Enterprise® machines. This chapter introduces the principles of wireless networking
and the basic configuration for wireless networking.

29.1 Wireless LAN

Wireless LANs have become an indispensable aspect of mobile computing. Today,
most laptops have built-in WLAN cards. The 802.11 standard for the wireless commu-
nication of WLAN cards was prepared by the IEEE organization. Originally, this stan-
dard provided for a maximum transmission rate of 2 Mbit/s. Meanwhile, several sup-
plements have been added to increase the data rate. These supplements define details
such as the modulation, transmission output, and transmission rates:
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