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pcwl(7D) Devices pcwl(7D) NAME
pcwl - Lucent/PrismII 802.11b wireless NIC driver DESCRIPTION
The pcwl 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi- threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver. It supports the pccard and PCI/MiniPCI cards with the Lucent and PrismII 802.11b chipsets on x86 and SPARC. DRIVER CONFIGURATION
The pcwl driver supports 802.11b data rates of 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 (Mbits/sec). The default is 11. The pcwl driver supports BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and IBSS (or "ad-hoc") networks. For authentication type, the pcwl driver supports the "open" (or "open-system") mode and the "shared-key" mode. For encryption type, only WEP is currently supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the dladm(1M) and wificonfig(1M) utilities. FILES
/dev/pcwl* Special character device. /kernel/drv/pcwl 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/pcwl 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcwl 64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SPARC, x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D) 802.11b Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) - IEEE SunOS 5.11 24 Jan 2007 pcwl(7D)
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iwi(7D) Devices iwi(7D) NAME
iwi - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11a/b/g IPW2200B/G IPW2915A/B/G Driver DESCRIPTION
The iwi 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), on Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG 2915ABG chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver functions include controller ini- tialization, wireless 802.11b infrastructure network connection, WEP and frame transmit and receive. DRIVER CONFIGURATION
The iwi driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode. Supported 802.11b data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec. Supported 802.11g data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54 Mbits/sec. The iwi driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and "open"(or "open-system") or "shared system" authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the dladm(1M) and wificonfig(1M) utilities. FILES
/dev/iwi* Special character device. /kernel/drv/iwi 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/iwi 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D), dlpi(7P) ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology -- 1999 IEEE Std 802.11a- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. A-- 2003 IEEE Std 802.11b - Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. B -- 2003 IEEE Std 802.11g- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology -Rev. G-- 2003 SunOS 5.11 11 Mar 2007 iwi(7D)