IPW(4D) Devices IPW(4D)

ipw - Intel Pro. Wireless 802.11b IPW2100B driver

The ipw 802.11b 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 2100B chipset-based wireless NIC's. Driver functions include controller initialization, wireless 802.11b infrastructure network connection, WEP, frame transmit and receive and promiscuous support.

The ipw 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 ipw driver supports only BSS networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and the "open" ("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.

/dev/ipw*

Special character device.

/kernel/drv/ipw

32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

/kernel/drv/amd64/ipw

64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture x86

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

ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11- Standard for Wireless LAN Technology — 1999

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

March 11, 2007 OmniOS