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14.Dd Jun 11, 2016
15.Dt IWN 4D
16.Os
17.Sh NAME
18.Nm iwn
19.Nd Intel(R) WiFi Link 4965 and 100/1000/2000/5000/6000 Series Driver
20.Sh DESCRIPTION
21The
22.Nm
23.Em 802.11a/g/n
24wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable,
25GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Intel Wifi Link 4965, 100,
261000, 2000, 5000, and 6000 series of NIC's.
27Driver functions include controller initialization, wireless
28.Em 802.11
29infrastructure network connection, WEP and frame transmit and receive.
30.Sh CONFIGURATION
31The
32.Nm
33driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode
34Supported data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbit/sec for
35.Em 802.11b
36and
37.Em 802.11g ,
38as well as 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54 Mbit/sec for
39.Em 802.11a
40and
41.Em 802.11g .
42.Sh FILES
43.Bl -tag -compact -width Pa
44.It Pa /dev/iwn
45Special character device.
46.It Pa /kernel/drv/iwn
4732-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
48.It Pa /kernel/drv/amd64/iwn
4964-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
50.It Pa /kernel/firmware/iwn/*.ucode
51.Nm
52firmware files
53.El
54.Sh SEE ALSO
55.Xr dladm 8 ,
56.Xr wificonfig 8
57.Pp
58.Em 802.11 - Wireless LAN Media  Access Control  and  Physical Layer
59Specification- IEEE, 2001
60