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pcwl(7D)							      Devices								  pcwl(7D)

NAME
pcwl - Lucent/PrismII 802.11b wireless NIC driver
DESCRIPTION
The pcwl 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi- threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver. It supports the pccard and PCI/MiniPCI cards with the Lucent and PrismII 802.11b chipsets on x86 and SPARC.
DRIVER CONFIGURATION
The pcwl driver supports 802.11b data rates of 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 (Mbits/sec). The default is 11. The pcwl driver supports BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and IBSS (or "ad-hoc") networks. For authentication type, the pcwl driver supports the "open" (or "open-system") mode and the "shared-key" 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/pcwl* Special character device. /kernel/drv/pcwl 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/pcwl 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcwl 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 pcwl(7D)
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