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.TH ipw 7D "11 Mar 2007" "SunOS 5.11" "Devices"
.SH NAME
ipw \- Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver
.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The \fBipw\fR \fI802.11b\fR wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider
Interface, \fBdlpi\fR(7P), on Intel Pro Wireless  2100B chipset-based wireless
NIC's. Driver  functions  include controller initialization, wireless
\fI802.11b\fR infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and
receive and promiscuous support.
.SH DRIVER CONFIGURATION
.sp
.LP
The \fBipw\fR driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and
mode. Supported \fI802.11b\fR data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec.
.sp
.LP
The \fBipw\fR driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or
"infrastructure" networks) and the "open" ("open-system") or "shared system"
authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You perform
configuration and administration tasks using the \fBdladm\fR(1M) and
\fBwificonfig\fR(1M) utilities.
.SH FILES
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB/dev/ipw*\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 25n
.rt  
Special character device.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB/kernel/drv/ipw\fR
.ad
.RS 25n
.rt  
32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB/kernel/drv/amd64/ipw\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 25n
.rt  
64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for a description of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Architecturex86
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBdladm\fR(1M), \fBwificonfig\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBgld\fR(7D),
\fBdlpi\fR(7P)
.sp
.LP
\fIANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN  Technology\fR \(em 1999
.sp
.LP
\fIIEEE Std 802.11b - Standard  for  Wireless  LAN  Technology-Rev. B \fR -
2003