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man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

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Updated: July 2017
 
 

rtw(7D)

Name

rtw - RealTek 8180L 802.11b Wireless NIC driver

Description

The rtw 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting RealTek 8180L chipset-based NIC's.

CONFIGURATION

The rtw 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 default is 11.

The rtw driver supports only BSS networks (also known as ap or infrastructure networks) and open (or open-system) or shared system authentication.

Files

/dev/rtw*

Special character device.

/kernel/drv/amd64/rtw

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

Attributes

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture
x86
Availability
driver/network/wlan/rtw
Interface Stability
Committed

See Also

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

802.11 - Wireless LAN Media Access Control and Physical Layer Specification — IEEE, 2001