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man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

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Updated: July 2017
 
 

iwp(7D)

Name

iwp - Intel WiFi Link 6000 Series Device Driver

Description

The iwp 802.11b/g/n wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver which supports the Intel WiFi Link 6000 series chipset-based NICs.

Configuration

The iwp driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode. The driver supports only BSS networks (also known as ap or infrastructure networks) and open (or open-system) or shared system authentication. For wireless security, WEP encryption, WPA-PSK, and WPA2-PSK are currently supported. Configuration and administration tasks can be performed with dladm(1M).

Files

/kernel/drv/amd64/iwp

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86)

/dev/iwp*

Special character device

Attributes

See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Committed

See Also

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