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34.Dd September 20, 2014
35.Dt MALO 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm malo
39.Nd "Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver"
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41To compile this driver into the kernel,
42place the following lines in your
43kernel configuration file:
44.Bd -ragged -offset indent
45.Cd "device malo"
46.Cd "device pci"
47.Cd "device wlan"
48.Cd "device firmware"
49.Ed
50.Pp
51Alternatively, to load the driver as a
52module at boot time, place the following line in
53.Xr loader.conf 5 :
54.Bd -literal -offset indent
55if_malo_load="YES"
56.Ed
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58The
59.Nm
60driver provides support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI
61and Cardbus network adapters.
62.Nm
63supports
64.Cm station
65and
66.Cm monitor
67mode operation.
68Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
69For more information on configuring this device, see
70.Xr ifconfig 8 .
71.Pp
72This driver requires the
73.Nm malofw
74firmware kernel module be installed before it will work.
75The firmware files are not publicly available.
76A port of the firmware can be found at:
77.Bd -literal -offset indent
78http://weongyo.org/project/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tar.gz
79.Ed
80.Pp
81The firmware kernel module can be installed by extracting
82the archive and running
83.Ql make install clean
84in the
85.Pa malo-firmware-1.4
86directory.
87.Pp
88To load the
89.Nm malofw
90firmware kernel module at boot time, place the following
91line in
92.Xr loader.conf 5 :
93.Bd -literal -offset indent
94malofw_load="YES"
95.Ed
96.Sh HARDWARE
97The following cards are among those supported by the
98.Nm
99driver:
100.Bl -column "Netgear WG311v3" "88W8335" "PCI" "b/g"
101.Em "Card" Ta Em "Chip" Ta Em "Bus" Ta Em "Standard"
102.It "Netgear WG311v3" Ta "88W8335" Ta "PCI" Ta "b/g"
103.It "Tenda TWL542P" Ta "88W8335" Ta "PCI" Ta "b/g"
104.It "U-Khan UW-2054i" Ta "88W8335" Ta "PCI" Ta "b/g"
105.El
106.Sh EXAMPLES
107Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
108.Bd -literal -offset indent
109ifconfig wlan create wlandev malo0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
110    netmask 0xffffff00
111.Ed
112.Pp
113Join a specific BSS network with network name
114.Dq Li my_net :
115.Pp
116.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev malo0 ssid my_net up"
117.Pp
118Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
119.Bd -literal -offset indent
120ifconfig wlan create wlandev malo0 ssid my_net \e
121	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
122.Ed
123.Sh SEE ALSO
124.Xr cardbus 4 ,
125.Xr pci 4 ,
126.Xr wlan 4 ,
127.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 ,
128.Xr wlan_tkip 4 ,
129.Xr wlan_wep 4 ,
130.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
131.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
132.Sh HISTORY
133The
134.Nm
135device driver first appeared in
136.Fx 7.1 .
137