1pcan(7D)                            Devices                           pcan(7D)
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NAME

6       pcan - Cisco Aironet 802.11b wireless NIC driver
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  pcan  wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable,
10       GLDv3-based STREAMS driver. It  supports  the  pccard  and  PCI/MiniPCI
11       cards  with  the  Cisco Aironet 802.11b chipset. For pccard, the driver
12       works in both SPARC and  x86  (32-bit/64-bit)  modes.  For  PCI/MiniPCI
13       card, the driver works in 32-bit x86 mode only.
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DRIVER CONFIGURATION

16       The  pcan  driver  supports  802.11b  data  rates  of  1, 2, 5.5 and 11
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20       The pcan driver supports BSS networks (also known as  "ap"  or  "infra‐
21       structure"  networks)  and  IBSS  networks (also known as "ad-hoc" net‐
22       works). For authentication type, the pcan driver  supports  the  "open"
23       (or  "open-system")  mode.  For  encryption type, only WEP is currently
24       supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the
25       dladm(1M) and wificonfig(1M) utilities.
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FILES

28       /dev/pcan*                  Special character device.
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31       /kernel/drv/pcan            32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
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34       /kernel/drv/amd64/pcan      64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
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37       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcan    64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC).
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ATTRIBUTES

41       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
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46       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
47       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
48       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
49       │Availability                 │SPARC, x86                   │
50       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

53       dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D)
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56       802.11b Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) - IEEE
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60SunOS 5.11                        24 Jan 2007                         pcan(7D)
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