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Old 05-14-2008
NIC driver guide
Hi

I need to know how a driver for a network interface card works, I want to learn the basic principles since I know that every driver has its specific implementation.
For example when we speak about the scheduler, we can read an operating system book and learn general design concepts e.g. multilevel feedback, round robin schedule, etc. Then if we look at linux's scheduler we can learn its specific implementation for one of the general scheduler studied form the operating system book.
I'd like to do the same thing with the NIC driver.
Thank you in advance.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

pcan

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)