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Devices                                                  pcan(7D)



NAME
     pcan - Cisco Aironet 802.11b wireless NIC driver

DESCRIPTION
     The pcan wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded,  loadable,
     clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver. It supports the pccard
     and PCI/MiniPCI cards with the Cisco Aironet  802.11b  chip-
     set.  For  pccard,  the  driver  works in both SPARC and x86
     (32-bit/64-bit) modes.  For  PCI/MiniPCI  card,  the  driver
     works in 32-bit x86 mode only.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION
     The pcan driver supports 802.11b data rates of 1, 2, 5.5 and
     11 (Mbits/sec). The default is 11.


     The pcan driver supports BSS networks (also known as "ap" or
     "infrastructure"  networks) and IBSS networks (also known as
     "ad-hoc" networks). For authentication type, the pcan driver
     supports  the "open" (or "open-system") mode. For encryption
     type, only WEP is currently supported.  You  perform  confi-
     guration  and  administration  tasks using the dladm(1M) and
     wificonfig(1M) utilities.

FILES
     /dev/pcan*                  Special character device.


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


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


     /kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcan    64-bit   ELF    kernel    module
                                 (SPARC).


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



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






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Devices                                                  pcan(7D)



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


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

















































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