opensolaris man page for iwi

iwi(7D) 							      Devices								   iwi(7D)

NAME
       iwi - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11a/b/g IPW2200B/G IPW2915A/B/G Driver

DESCRIPTION
       The   iwi  802.11b/g   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 2200BG 2915ABG chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver functions include controller   ini-
       tialization, wireless 802.11b  infrastructure network connection, WEP and frame transmit and receive.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION
       The iwi 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.

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

FILES
       /dev/iwi*		Special character device.

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

       /kernel/drv/amd64/iwi	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 802.11a- Standard for Wireless LAN  Technology-Rev. A-- 2003

       IEEE Std 802.11b - Standard  for  Wireless  LAN	Technology-Rev. B -- 2003

       IEEE Std 802.11g- Standard for  Wireless  LAN  Technology  -Rev. G-- 2003

SunOS 5.11							    11 Mar 2007 							   iwi(7D)