ath(7D)

Name | Description | DRIVER CONFIGURATION | Files | Attributes | See Also

Name

ath– Atheros AR52xx 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver

Description

The ath 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver for the Atheros AR52xx (AR5210/5211/5212) chipset-based wireless NIC.

The ath driver functions include controller initialization, wireless 802.11b/g infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and receive, and promiscuous and multi-cast support.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION

The ath driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rates and mode. Supported 802.11b data rates (Mbits/sec.) are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11. Supported 802.11g data rates (Mbits/sec.) are 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54.

The ath driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and the "open" (or "opensystem") authentication type. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. Configuration and administration can be performed through the dladm(1M) or wificonfig(1M) utilities.

Files

/dev/ath*

Special character device.

/kernel/drv/ath

32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

/kernel/drv/amd64/ath

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture	x86

See Also

dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), gld(7D)

ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11– Standard for Wireless LAN Technology, 1999.

IEEE Std 802.11a– Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. A, 2003

IEEE Std 802.11b - Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev.B, 2003

IEEE Std 802.11g— Standard for Wireless LAN Technology - Rev. G, 2003

SunOS 5.11  Last Revised 14 Nov 2006

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