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)
