Devices                                                  pcwl(7D)



NAME
     pcwl - Lucent/PrismI 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 PrismI
     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 BS networks (also known as "ap" or
     "infrastructure"  networks) and IBS (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  per-
     form   configuration  and  administration  tasks  using  the
     dladm(1M) and wificonfig(1M) utilities.

FILES
     /dev/pcwl*                  Special character device.


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


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


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


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



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SPARC, x86                  
    


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




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