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 IWI 7D "Mar 11, 2007"
 NAME
iwi - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11a/b/g IPW2200B/G IPW2915A/B/G Driver
 DESCRIPTION

The iwi 802.11b/g  wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded,
loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link
Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), on Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG 2915ABG
chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver functions include controller
initialization, wireless 802.11b  infrastructure network connection, WEP
and frame transmit and receive.
 DRIVER CONFIGURATION

The iwi 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.

The iwi driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or
"infrastructure" networks) and "open"(or "open-system") or "shared system"
authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You perform
configuration and administration tasks using the dladm(1M) and
wificonfig(1M) utilities.
 FILES
/dev/iwi*

Special character device.


/kernel/drv/iwi

32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).


/kernel/drv/amd64/iwi

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).


 ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:


ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture x86


 SEE ALSO

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

ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology \(em 1999

IEEE Std 802.11a- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. A\(em 2003

IEEE Std 802.11b - Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. B \(em
2003

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