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)