1pcwl(7D)                            Devices                           pcwl(7D)
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NAME

6       pcwl - Lucent/PrismII 802.11b wireless NIC driver
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DESCRIPTION

9       The   pcwl  802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi- threaded, loadable,
10       clonable, GLDv3-based  STREAMS  driver.  It  supports  the  pccard  and
11       PCI/MiniPCI  cards  with the Lucent and PrismII 802.11b chipsets on x86
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DRIVER CONFIGURATION

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

27       /dev/pcwl*                  Special character device.
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30       /kernel/drv/pcwl            32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
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33       /kernel/drv/amd64/pcwl      64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
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36       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcwl    64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC).
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ATTRIBUTES

40       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
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45       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
46       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
47       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
48       │Availability                 │SPARC, x86                   │
49       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

52       dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D)
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55       802.11b Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) - IEEE
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59SunOS 5.11                        24 Jan 2007                         pcwl(7D)
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