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 ath 7D "14 Nov 2006" "SunOS 5.11" "Devices"
 NAME
ath - Atheros AR52xx 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver
 DESCRIPTION

The ath 802.11b/g  wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded,
loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver for the Atheros AR52xx
(AR5210/5211/5212) chipset-based wireless NIC.

The ath driver functions include controller initialization, wireless
802.11b/g infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and
receive, and promiscuous and multi-cast support.
 DRIVER CONFIGURATION

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

 The ath driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or
"infrastructure" networks) and the "open" (or "opensystem") authentication
type. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. Configuration and
administration can be performed through the dladm(1M) or
wificonfig(1M) utilities.
 FILES

/dev/ath*

Special character device.


/kernel/drv/ath

32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).


/kernel/drv/amd64/ath

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).


 ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecturex86


 SEE ALSO

dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), gld(7D)

ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology, 1999.

IEEE Std 802.11a- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. A, 2003

IEEE Std 802.11b - Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev.B, 2003

IEEE Std 802.11g\(em Standard for Wireless LAN Technology - Rev. G, 2003