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WPI 7D "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(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture x86
Interface Stability Committed
SEE ALSO

dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D), dlpi(7P)

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