1ipw(7D)                             Devices                            ipw(7D)
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NAME

6       ipw - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver
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DESCRIPTION

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
14       receive and promiscuous support.
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DRIVER CONFIGURATION

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
25       wificonfig(1M) utilities.
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FILES

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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ATTRIBUTES

38       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
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43       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
44       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
45       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
46       │Availability                 │x86                          │
47       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

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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56       IEEE  Std  802.11b - Standard  for  Wireless  LAN  Technology-Rev. B  -
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61SunOS 5.11                        11 Mar 2007                          ipw(7D)
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