1ipw(7D) Devices ipw(7D)
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6 ipw - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver
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9 The ipw 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
10 clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider
11 Interface, dlpi(7P), on Intel Pro Wireless 2100B chipset-based wire‐
12 less NIC's. Driver functions include controller initialization, wire‐
13 less 802.11b infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and
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17 The ipw driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and
18 mode. Supported 802.11b data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec.
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21 The ipw driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "in‐
22 frastructure" networks) and the "open" ("open-system") or "shared sys‐
23 tem" authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You
24 perform configuration and administration tasks using the dladm(1M) and
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28 /dev/ipw* Special character device.
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31 /kernel/drv/ipw 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
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34 /kernel/drv/amd64/ipw 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
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43 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
44 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
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46 │Availability │x86 │
47 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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50 dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D), dlpi(7P)
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53 ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology — 1999
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61SunOS 5.11 11 Mar 2007 ipw(7D)