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.TH ipw 7D "5 Jan 2012" "SunOS 5.11" "Devices"
.SH NAME
ipw \- Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.LP
The \fBipw\fR \fI802.11b\fR wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface, \fBdlpi\fR(7P), on Intel Pro Wireless  2100B chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver  functions  include controller initialization, wireless \fI802.11b\fR infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and receive and promiscuous support.
.SH DRIVER CONFIGURATION
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.LP
The \fBipw\fR driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode. Supported \fI802.11b\fR data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec.
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.LP
The \fBipw\fR driver supports only BSS networks (also known as \fBap\fR or \fBinfrastructure\fR networks) and the \fBopen\fR (\fBopen-system\fR) or \fBshared system\fR authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the \fBdladm\fR(1M) utility.
.SH FILES
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.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB/dev/ipw*\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 25n
.rt  
Special character device.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB/kernel/drv/amd64/ipw\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 25n
.rt  
64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
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.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for a description of the following attributes:
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.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Availabilitydriver/network/wlan/ipw
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.LP
\fBdladm\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBgld\fR(7D), \fBdlpi\fR(7P)
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.LP
\fIANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN  Technology\fR \(em 1999
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\fIIEEE Std 802.11b - Standard  for  Wireless  LAN  Technology-Rev. B \fR - 2003