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rtw

rtw(7D) 							      Devices								   rtw(7D)

NAME

       rtw - RealTek 8180L 802.11b Wireless NIC driver

DESCRIPTION

       The rtw 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a  multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based  STREAMS driver supporting RealTek 8180L chipset-
       based NIC's.

CONFIGURATION

       The rtw 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 default is 11.

       The rtw driver supports only BSS  networks  (also  known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and "open"(or "open-system") or "shared sys-
       tem" authentication.

FILES

       /dev/rtw*

	   Special character device.

       /kernel/drv/rtw

	   32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

       /kernel/drv/amd64/rtw

	   64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWrtw			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D), dlpi(7P)

       802.11 - Wireless LAN  Media  Access  Control  and  Physical Layer Specification -- IEEE, 2001

SunOS 5.11							    12 Jul 2007 							   rtw(7D)