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IWI 4D "Mar 11, 2007"
NAME
iwi - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11a/b/g IPW2200B/G IPW2915A/B/G Driver
DESCRIPTION

The iwi 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(4P), on Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG 2915ABG chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver functions include controller initialization, wireless 802.11b infrastructure network connection, WEP and frame transmit and receive.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION

The iwi driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode. Supported 802.11b data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec. Supported 802.11g data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54 Mbits/sec.

The iwi driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and "open"(or "open-system") or "shared system" authentication. Only WEP encryption is currently supported. You perform configuration and administration tasks using the dladm(8) and wificonfig(8) utilities.

FILES
/dev/iwi*

Special character device.

/kernel/drv/iwi

32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

/kernel/drv/amd64/iwi

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for a description of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture x86
SEE ALSO

gld (4D), dlpi (4P), attributes (7), dladm (8), wificonfig (8)

ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology \(em 1999

IEEE Std 802.11a- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. A\(em 2003

IEEE Std 802.11b - Standard for Wireless LAN Technology-Rev. B \(em 2003

IEEE Std 802.11g- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology -Rev. G\(em 2003