rtw(7D) Devices rtw(7D)
NAME
rtw - RealTek 8180L 802.11b Wireless NIC driver
DESCRIPTION
The rtw 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting RealTek 8180L chipset-
based NIC's.
CONFIGURATION
The rtw 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 default is 11.
The rtw driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and "open"(or "open-system") or "shared sys-
tem" authentication.
FILES
/dev/rtw*
Special character device.
/kernel/drv/rtw
32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
/kernel/drv/amd64/rtw
64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |x86 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrtw |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|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 12 Jul 2007 rtw(7D)
