Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man ipw

Devices                                                   ipw(7D)



NAME
     ipw - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver

DESCRIPTION
     The ipw 802.11b wireless NIC  driver  is  a  multi-threaded,
     loadable,  clonable,  GLDv3-based  STREAMS driver supporting
     the Data Link Provider Interface,  dlpi(7P),  on  Intel  Pro
     Wireless   2100B chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver  func-
     tions  include controller initialization,  wireless  802.11b
     infrastructure  network  connection, WEP, frame transmit and
     receive and promiscuous support.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION
     The ipw 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 ipw driver supports only BSS  networks  (also  known  as
     "ap"  or  "infrastructure"  networks) and the "open" ("open-
     system") or "shared system" authentication. Only WEP encryp-
     tion  is  currently supported. You perform configuration and
     administration tasks using the dladm(1M) and  wificonfig(1M)
     utilities.

FILES
     /dev/ipw*                Special character device.


     /kernel/drv/ipw          32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).


     /kernel/drv/amd64/ipw    64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for a description of the following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x86                         |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


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





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Devices                                                   ipw(7D)



     ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN   Technology
     - 1999


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

















































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