ipw(7D) 							      Devices								   ipw(7D)

NAME

       ipw - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver

DESCRIPTION

       The  ipw  802.11b 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  2100B chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver  functions  include controller initialization, wire-
       less 802.11b infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and receive and promiscuous support.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION

       The ipw 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.

       The  ipw driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and the "open" ("open-system") or "shared sys-
       tem" authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the dladm(1M) and
       wificonfig(1M) utilities.

FILES

       /dev/ipw*		Special character device.

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

       /kernel/drv/amd64/ipw	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 802.11b - Standard  for  Wireless  LAN	Technology-Rev. B  - 2003

SunOS 5.11							    11 Mar 2007 							   ipw(7D)