Usage: wlctl [-a|i ] [-h] [-d|u|x] [arguments]

-h this message
-a, -i adapter name or number
-d signed integer
-u unsigned integer
-x hexdecimal

ver get version information

cmds generate a short list of available commands

up reinitialize and mark adapter up (operational)

down reset and mark adapter down (disabled)

out mark adapter down but do not reset hardware(disabled)
On dualband cards, cards must be bandlocked before use.

clk set board clock state. return error for set_clk attempt if the driver is not down
0: clock off
1: clock on

restart Restart driver. Driver must already be down.

reboot Reboot platform

ucflags Get/Set ucode flags

radio Set the radio on or off.
“on” or “off”

dump print driver software state and chip registers to stdout

srdump print contents of SPROM to stdout

nvdump print nvram variables to stdout

nvset set an nvram variable
name=value (no spaces around ‘=’)

nvget get the value of an nvram variable

revinfo get hardware revision information

msglevel
set driver console debugging message bitvector
type ‘wl msglevel ?’ for values

PM set driver power management mode:
0: CAM (constantly awake)
1: PS (power-save)
2: FAST PS mode

wake set driver power-save mode sleep state:
0: core-managed
1: awake

promisc set promiscuous mode ethernet address reception
0 – disable
1 – enable

monitor set monitor mode
0 – disable
1 – enable active monitor mode (interface still operates)

frag Deprecated. Use fragthresh.

rts Deprecated. Use rtsthresh.

cwmin Set the cwmin. (integer [1, 255])

cwmax Set the cwmax. (integer [256, 2047])

srl Set the short retry limit. (integer [1, 255])

lrl Set the long retry limit. (integer [1, 255])

rate force a fixed rate:
valid values for 802.11a are (6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
valid values for 802.11b are (1, 2, 5.5, 11)
valid values for 802.11g are (1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
-1 (default) means automatically determine the best rate

mrate force a fixed multicast rate:
valid values for 802.11a are (6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
valid values for 802.11b are (1, 2, 5.5, 11)
valid values for 802.11g are (1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
-1 (default) means automatically determine the best rate

a_rate force a fixed rate for the A PHY:
valid values for 802.11a are (6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
-1 (default) means automatically determine the best rate

a_mrate force a fixed multicast rate for the A PHY:
valid values for 802.11a are (6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
-1 (default) means automatically determine the best rate

bg_rate force a fixed rate for the B/G PHY:
valid values for 802.11b are (1, 2, 5.5, 11)
valid values for 802.11g are (1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
-1 (default) means automatically determine the best rate

bg_mrate
force a fixed multicast rate for the B/G PHY:
valid values for 802.11b are (1, 2, 5.5, 11)
valid values for 802.11g are (1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54)
-1 (default) means automatically determine the best rate

infra Set Infrastructure mode: 0 (IBSS) or 1 (Infra BSS)

ap Set AP mode: 0 (STA) or 1 (AP)

bssid Get the BSSID value, error if STA and not associated

channel Set the channel:
valid channels for 802.11b/g (2.4GHz band) are 1 through 14
valid channels for 802.11a (5 GHz band) are:
36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64,
100, 104, 108, 112, 116,120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140,
149, 153, 157, 161,
184, 188, 192, 196, 200, 204, 208, 212, 216

tssi Get the tssi value from radio

txpwr Set tx power in milliwatts. Range [1, 84].

txpwr1 Set tx power in in various units. Choose one of (default: dbm):
-d dbm units
-q quarter dbm units
-m milliwatt units
Can be combined with:
-o turn on override to disable regulatory and other limitations
Use wl txpwr -1 to restore defaults

txpathpwr
Turn the tx path power on or off on 2050 radios

txpwrlimit
Return current tx power limit

powerindex
Set the transmit power for A band(0-63).
-1 – default value

atten Set the transmit attenuation for B band. Args: bb radio txctl1.
auto to revert to automatic control

phyreg Get/Set a phy register:
offset [ value ] [ band ]

radioreg
Get/Set a radio register:
offset [ value ] [ band ]

shmem Get/Set a shared memory location:
offset [ value ] [ band ]

macreg Get/Set any mac registers(include IHR and SB):
macreg offset size[2,4] [value] [ band ]

ucantdiv
Enable/disable ucode antenna diversity (1/0 or on/off)

antdiv Set antenna diversity for rx
0 – force use of antenna 0
1 – force use of antenna 1
3 – automatic selection of antenna diversity

txant Set the transmit antenna
0 – force use of antenna 0
1 – force use of antenna 1
3 – use the RX antenna selection that was in force during
the most recently received good PLCP header

plcphdr Set the plcp header.
“long” or “auto” or “debug”

phytype Get phy type

scbdump print driver scb state to stdout

rateparam
set driver rate selection tunables
arg 1: tunable id
arg 2: tunable value

wepstatus
Set or Get WEP status
wepstatus [on|off]

primary_key
Set or get index of primary key

addwep Set an encryption key. The key must be 5, 13 or 16 bytes long, or
10, 26, 32, or 64 hex digits long. The encryption algorithm is
automatically selected based on the key size. keytype is accepted
only when key length is 16 bytes/32 hex digits and specifies
whether AES-OCB or AES-CCM encryption is used. Default is ccm.
addwep [ocb | ccm] [notx] [xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx]

rmwep Remove the encryption key at the specified key index.

keys Prints a list of the current WEP keys

tsc Print Tx Sequence Couter for key at specified key index.

wsec_test
Generate wsec errors
wsec_test
type ‘wl wsec_test ?’ for test_types

tkip_countermeasures
Enable or disable TKIP countermeasures (TKIP-enabled AP only)
0 – disable
1 – enable

wsec_restrict
Drop unencrypted packets if WSEC is enabled
0 – disable
1 – enable

eap restrict traffic to 802.1X packets until 802.1X authorization succeeds
0 – disable
1 – enable

authorize
restrict traffic to 802.1X packets until 802.1X authorization succeeds

deauthorize
do not restrict traffic to 802.1X packets until 802.1X authorization succeeds

deauthenticate
deauthenticate a STA from the AP with optional reason code (AP ONLY)

wsec wireless security bit vector
1 – WEP enabled
2 – TKIP enabled
4 – AES enabled
8 – WSEC in software

auth set/get 802.11 authentication type. 0 = OpenSystem, 1= SharedKey

wpa_auth
Bitvector of WPA authorization modes:
1 WPA-NONE
2 WPA-802.1X/WPA-Professional
4 WPA-PSK/WPA-Personal
64 WPA2-802.1X/WPA2-Professional
128 WPA2-PSK/WPA2-Personal
0 disable WPA

wpa_cap set/get 802.11i RSN capabilities

set_pmk Set passphrase for PMK in driver-resident supplicant.

scan Initiate a scan.
Default an active scan across all channels for any SSID.
Optional arg: SSID, the SSID to scan.
Options:
-s S, –ssid=S SSID to scan
-t ST, –scan_type=ST [active|passive] scan type
–bss_type=BT [bss/infra|ibss/adhoc] bss type to scan
-b MAC, –bssid=MAC particular BSSID MAC address to scan, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
-n N, –nprobes=N number of probes per scanned channel
-a N, –active=N dwell time per channel for active scanning
-p N, –passive=N dwell time per channel for passive scanning
-h N, –home=N dwell time for the home channel between channel scans
-c L, –channels=L comma or space separated list of channels to scan

passive Puts scan engine into passive mode

regulatory
Get/Set regulatory domain mode (802.11d). Driver must be down.

spect Get/Set 802.11h Spectrum Management mode.
0 – Off
1 – Loose interpretation of spec – may join non-11h APs
2 – Strict interpretation of spec – may not join non-11h APs 3  
    Disable 11H and enable 11D

scanresults
Return results from last scan.

assoc Print information about current network association.
(also known as “status”)

status Print information about current network association.
(also known as “assoc”)

disassoc
Disassociate from the current BSS/IBSS.

chanlist
Deprecated. Use channels.

channels
Return valid channels for the current settings.

channels_in_country
Return valid channels for the country specified.
Arg 1 is the country abbreviation
Arg 2 is the band(a or b)

curpower
Return current tx power settings.
-q (quiet): estimated power only.

scansuppress
Suppress all scans for testing.
0 – allow scans
1 – suppress scans

evm Start an EVM test on the given channel, or stop EVM test.
Arg 1 is channel number 1-14, or “off” or 0 to stop the test.
Arg 2 is optional rate (1, 2, 5.5 or 11)

rateset Returns or sets the supported and basic rateset, (b) indicates basic
With no args, returns the rateset. Args are
rateset “default” | “all” |
default – driver defaults
all – all rates are basic rates
arbitrary rateset – list of rates
List of rates are in Mbps and each rate is optionally followed
by “(b)” or “b” for a Basic rate. Example: 1(b) 2b 5.5 11
At least one rate must be Basic for a legal rateset.

roam_trigger
Set the roam trigger RSSI threshold: roam_trigger [integer [, a/b]]

roam_delta
Set the roam candidate qualification delta. roam_delta [integer [, a/b]]

roam_scan_period
Set the roam candidate qualification delta. (integer)

suprates
Returns or sets the 11g override for the supported rateset
With no args, returns the rateset. Args are a list of rates,
or 0 or -1 to specify an empty rateset to clear the override.
List of rates are in Mbps, example: 1 2 5.5 11

scan_channel_time
Get/Set scan channel time

scan_unassoc_time
Get/Set unassociated scan channel dwell time

scan_home_time
Get/Set scan home channel dwell time

scan_passive_time
Get/Set passive scan channel dwell time

scan_nprobes
Get/Set scan parameter for number of probes to use per channel scanned

prb_resp_timeout
Get/Set probe response timeout

channel_qa
Get last channel quality measurment

channel_qa_start
Start a channel quality measurment

country Select Country code for use with 802.11d
Use either long name or abbreviation from ISO 3166.
Use ‘wl country list [band(a or b)]’ for the list of supported countries

locale OBSOLETE: use “wl country”
Select the country:
Worldwide
Thailand
Israel
Jordan
China
Japan
USA/Canada/ANZ
Europe
USAlow
JapanHigh
All

join Join a specified network SSID.
Join syntax is:  
join [key xxxxx] [imode bss|ibss] [amode open|shared|wpa|wpapsk|wpa2|wpa2psk|wpanone]

ssid Set or get a configuration’s SSID.
wl ssid [-C num]|[–cfg=num] []
If the configuration index ‘num’ is not given, configuraion #0 is assumed and
setting will initiate an assoication attempt if in infrastructure mode,
or join/creation of an IBSS if in IBSS mode,
or creation of a BSS if in AP mode.

mac Set or get the list of source MAC address matches.
wl mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx …]
To Clear the list: wl mac none

macmode Set the mode of the MAC list.
0 – Disable MAC address matching.
1 – Deny association to stations on the MAC list.
2 – Allow association to stations on the MAC list.

wds Set or get the list of WDS member MAC addresses.
Set using a space separated list of MAC addresses.
wl wds xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx …]

lazywds Set or get “lazy” WDS mode (dynamically grant WDS membership to anyone).

noise Get noise (moving average) right after tx in dBm

fqacurcy
Manufacturing test: set frequency accuracy mode.
freqacuracy syntax is: fqacurcy
Arg is channel number 1-14, or 0 to stop the test.

crsuprs Manufacturing test: set carrier suppression mode.
carriersuprs syntax is: crsuprs
Arg is channel number 1-14, or 0 to stop the test.

longtrain
Manufacturing test: set longtraining mode.
longtrain syntax is: longtrain
Arg is A band channel number or 0 to stop the test.

band Returns or sets the current band
auto – auto switch between available bands (default)
a – force use of 802.11a band
b – force use of 802.11b band

bands Return the list of available 802.11 bands

phylist Return the list of available phytypes

shortslot
Get current 11g Short Slot Timing mode. (0=long, 1=short)

shortslot_override
Get/Set 11g Short Slot Timing mode override. (-1=auto, 0=long, 1=short)

shortslot_restrict
Get/Set AP Restriction on associations for 11g Short Slot Timing capable STAs.
0 – Do not restrict association based on ShortSlot capability
1 – Restrict association to STAs with ShortSlot capability

ignore_bcns
AP only (G mode):
Check for beacons without NONERP element (0=Examine beacons, 1=Ignore beacons)

pktcnt Get the summary of good and bad packets.

upgrade Upgrade the firmware on an embedded device

gmode Set the 54g Mode (LegacyB|Auto||GOnly|BDeferred|Performance|LRS)

gmode_protection
Get G protection mode. (0=disabled, 1=enabled)

gmode_protection_control
Get/Set 11g protection mode control alg.
0=always off
1=monitor local association
2=monitor overlapping BSS

gmode_protection_cts
Get/Set 11g protection type to CTS (0=disable, 1=enable)

gmode_protection_override
Get/Set 11g protection mode override. (-1=auto, 0=disable, 1=enable)

legacy_erp
Get/Set 11g legacy ERP inclusion (0=disable, 1=enable)

scb_timeout
AP only: inactivity timeout value for authenticated stas

assoclist
AP only: Get the list of associated MAC addresses.

rssi Get the current RSSI val, for an AP you must specify the mac addr of the STA

isup Get driver operational state (0=down, 1=up)

fasttimer
Deprecated. Use fast_timer.

slowtimer
Deprecated. Use slow_timer.

glacialtimer
Deprecated. Use glacial_timer.

radar Enable/Disable radar

radarargs
Get/Set Radar parameters in
order as npulses, ncontig, min_pw , max_pw, thresh0, thresh1

dfs_status
Get dfs status

interference
Get/Set interference mitigation mode. Choices are:
0 = none
1 = non wlan
2 = wlan manual
3 = wlan automatic

frameburst
Disable/Enable frameburst mode

pwr_percent
Get/Set power output percentage

wet Get/Set wireless ethernet bridging mode

bi Get/Set the beacon period (bi=beacon interval)

dtim Get/Set DTIM

wds_remote_mac
Get WDS link remote endpoint’s MAC address

wds_wpa_role_old
Get WDS link local endpoint’s WPA role (old)

wds_wpa_role
Get/Set WDS link local endpoint’s WPA role

authe_sta_list
Get authenticated sta mac address list

autho_sta_list
Get authorized sta mac address list

measure_req
Send an 802.11h measurement request.
Usage: wl measure_req
Measurement types are: TPC, Basic, CCA, RPI
Target MAC addr format is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

quiet Send an 802.11h quiet command.
Usage: wl quiet , ,

csa Send an 802.11h channel switch anouncement
Usage wl csa

constraint
Send an 802.11h Power Constraint IE
Usage: wl constraint 1-255 db

rm_req Request a radio measurement of type basic, cca, or rpi
specify a series of measurement types each followed by options.
example: wl rm_req cca -c 1 -d 50 cca -c 6 cca -c 11
Options:
-t n numeric token id for measurement set or measurement
-c n channel
-d n duration in TUs (1024 us)
-p parallel flag, measurement starts at the same time as previous

Each measurement specified uses the same channel and duration as the
previous unless a new channel or duration is specified.

rm_rep Get current radio measurement report

join_pref
Set/Get join target preferences.

assoc_pref
Set/Get association preference.
Usage: wl assoc_pref [auto|a|b|g]

wme Set WME (Wireless Multimedia Extensions) mode (0=off, 1=on, -1=auto)

wme_ac wl wme_ac sta/ap [be, bk, vi, vo] [ecwmax, ecwmin, txop, aifsn, acm] value

wme_apsd
Set APSD (Automatic Power Save Delivery) mode on AP (0=off, 1=on)

wme_apsd_sta
Set APSD parameters on STA. Driver must be down.
Usage: wl wme_apsd_sta
: number of frames per USP: 0 (all), 2, 4, or 6
: value 0 to disable, 1 to enable U-APSD per AC

wme_dp Set AC queue discard policy.
Usage: wl wme_dp
: value 0 for newest-first, 1 for oldest-first

wme_counters
print WMM stats

reinit Reinitialize device

sta_info
wl sta_info

cap driver capabilities

malloc_dump
debug malloc info

chan_info
channel info

add_ie Add a vendor proprietary IE to 802.11 management packets
Usage: wl add_ie length OUI hexdata
: Bit 0 – Beacons
Bit 1 – Probe Rsp
Bit 2 – Assoc/Reassoc Rsp
Bit 3 – Auth Rsp
Example: wl add_ie 3 10 00:90:4C 0101050c121a03
to add this IE to beacons and probe responses

del_ie Delete a vendor proprietary IE from 802.11 management packets
Usage: wl del_ie length OUI hexdata
: Bit 0 – Beacons
Bit 1 – Probe Rsp
Bit 2 – Assoc/Reassoc Rsp
Bit 3 – Auth Rsp
Example: wl del_ie 3 10 00:90:4C 0101050c121a03

list_ie Dump the list of vendor proprietary IEs

rand Get a 2-byte Random Number from the MAC’s PRNG
Usage: wl rand

nvotpw Write nvram to on-chip otp
Usage: wl nvotpw file

bcmerrorstr
errorstring

freqtrack
Set Frequency Tracking Mode (0=Auto, 1=On, 2=OFF)

eventing
set/get 128-bit hex filter bitmask for MAC event reporting up to application layer

event_msgs
set/get 128-bit hex filter bitmask for MAC event reporting via packet indications

counters
Return driver counter values

assoc_info
Returns the assoc req and resp information [STA only]

autochannel
auto channel selection:
1 to issue a channel scanning;
2 to set channel based on the channel scanning result;
without argument to only show the channel selected;
ssid must set to null before this process, RF must be up

closed hides the network from active scans, 0 or 1.
0 is open, 1 is hide

pmkid_info
Returns the pmkid table

abminrate
get/set afterburner minimum rate threshold

bss set/get BSS enabled status: up/down

closednet
set/get BSS closed network attribute

diag diag testindex(1-interrupt, 2-loopback, 3-memory, 4-led);
precede by ‘wl down’ and follow by ‘wl up’

reset_d11cnts
reset 802.11 MIB counters

8021x Set or get 802.1x in use.
0 – disable
1 – enable

idle_timeout
Set or get the session idle timeout in seconds.

auth_blockout_time
Set or get the barring time (seconds) for log in retry is accepted.

auth_blockout_list
Get the list of authentication block out MAC addresses.

corerev Get current core revision

close hides the network from active scans, 0 or 1.
0 is open, 1 is hide

beacon Set the beacon interval:
valid beacon interval are 1-65535

essid Set the SSID ID value

pwr_percent1
Get/Set power output percentage