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

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) utility.

Files

/dev/pcwl*

Special character device

/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 Architecture SPARC, x86

See also

dladm(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D)

802.11b Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) - IEEE