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)
