pcan(7D)							      Devices								  pcan(7D)

NAME

       pcan - Cisco Aironet 802.11b wireless NIC driver

DESCRIPTION

       The  pcan  wireless  NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver. It supports the pccard and PCI/MiniPCI
       cards with the Cisco Aironet 802.11b chipset. For pccard, the driver works in both SPARC and x86  (32-bit/64-bit)  modes.  For  PCI/MiniPCI
       card, the driver works in 32-bit x86 mode only.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION

       The pcan driver supports 802.11b data rates of 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 (Mbits/sec). The default is 11.

       The  pcan  driver  supports  BSS  networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and IBSS networks (also known as "ad-hoc" net-
       works). For authentication type, the pcan driver supports the "open" (or "open-system") 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/pcan*		   Special character device.

       /kernel/drv/pcan 	   32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

       /kernel/drv/amd64/pcan	   64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcan    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 							  pcan(7D)