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pcwl(7D)			    Devices			      pcwl(7D)

NAME
       pcwl - 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 ALSO
       dladm(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)

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