IWN(4D) Devices IWN(4D)

iwnIntel(R) WiFi Link 4965 and 100/1000/2000/5000/6000 Series Driver

The iwn wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Intel Wifi Link 4965, 100, 1000, 2000, 5000, and 6000 series of NIC's. Driver functions include controller initialization, wireless 802.11 infrastructure network connection, WEP and frame transmit and receive.

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

/dev/iwn
Special character device.
/kernel/drv/iwn
32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
/kernel/drv/amd64/iwn
64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
/kernel/firmware/iwn/*.ucode
iwn firmware files

dladm(8), wificonfig(8)

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

June 11, 2016 OmniOS