pcwl(7D) Devices pcwl(7D)NAMEpcwl - Lucent/PrismII 802.11b wireless NIC driver
DESCRIPTION
The pcwl 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi- threaded, loadable,
clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver. It supports the pccard and
PCI/MiniPCI cards with the Lucent and PrismII 802.11b chipsets on x86
and SPARC.
DRIVER CONFIGURATION
The pcwl driver supports 802.11b data rates of 1, 2, 5.5 and 11
(Mbits/sec). The default is 11.
The pcwl driver supports BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infra‐
structure" networks) and IBSS (or "ad-hoc") networks. For authentica‐
tion type, the pcwl driver supports the "open" (or "open-system") mode
and the "shared-key" mode. For encryption type, only WEP is currently
supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the
dladm(1M) and wificonfig(1M) utilities.
FILES
/dev/pcwl* Special character device.
/kernel/drv/pcwl 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
/kernel/drv/amd64/pcwl 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcwl 64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SPARC, x86 │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOdladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D)
802.11b Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) - IEEE
SunOS 5.11 24 Jan 2007 pcwl(7D)