man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

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) 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:

See Also

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

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