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ipw(7D) Devices ipw(7D) NAME
ipw - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver DESCRIPTION
The ipw 802.11b 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 2100B chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver functions include controller initialization, wire- less 802.11b infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and receive and promiscuous support. DRIVER CONFIGURATION
The ipw 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 ipw driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and the "open" ("open-system") or "shared sys- tem" authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the dladm(1M) and wificonfig(1M) utilities. FILES
/dev/ipw* Special character device. /kernel/drv/ipw 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/ipw 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 802.11b - Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. B - 2003 SunOS 5.11 11 Mar 2007 ipw(7D)