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Section: 7d

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iwh(7D) 							      Devices								   iwh(7D)

NAME
iwh - Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100/5300 Driver
DESCRIPTION
The iwh 802.11a/g/n wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Intel Shirley Peak WiFi chipset-based NIC's. Driver functions include controller initialization, wireless 802.11 infrastructure network connection, WEP and frame transmit and receive.
CONFIGURATION
The iwh 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. Supported 802.11g data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54 Mbits/sec.
FILES
/dev/iwh Special character device. /kernel/drv/iwh 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/iwh 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWiwh | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |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 26 Aug 2008 iwh(7D)
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