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RTW 4D "Jul 12, 2007"
NAME
rtw - RealTek 8180L 802.11b Wireless NIC driver
DESCRIPTION

The rtw 802.11b wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting RealTek 8180L chipset-based NIC's.

CONFIGURATION

The rtw 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. The default is 11.

The rtw driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and "open"(or "open-system") or "shared system" authentication.

FILES
/dev/rtw*

Special character device.

/kernel/drv/rtw

32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

/kernel/drv/amd64/rtw

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

ATTRIBUTES

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture x86
Interface stability Committed
SEE ALSO

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

802.11 - Wireless LAN Media Access Control and Physical Layer Specification \(em IEEE, 2001