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WPI 4D "Apr 23, 2007"
NAME
wpi - Intel Pro Wireless 802.11a/b/g 3945 driver
DESCRIPTION

The wpi 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG chipset-based NIC's.

CONFIGURATION

The wpi driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode. Supported 802.11b data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec. Supported 802.11g data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54 Mbits/sec.

FILES
/dev/wpi

Special character device.

/kernel/drv/wpi

32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

/kernel/drv/amd64/wpi

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture x86
Interface Stability Committed
SEE ALSO

gld (4D), dlpi (4P), attributes (7), dladm (8), wificonfig (8)

802.11 \(em Wireless LAN Media Access Control and Physical Layer Specification \(em IEEE, 2001