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Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
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Additional patches from OpenBSD. Mostly grammar fixes and the like, however I'm adding the Dlink DWL520 as supported from OpenBSD. Also adding Dlink DWL650 since I have one in my hot little hands and it works great. # I suspect that OpenBSD needs this too :-)
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.\" $OpenBSD: wi.4tbl,v 1.14 2002/04/29 19:53:50 jsyn Exp $
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.\"
Remove Apple Airport card, since it seems to be mac-only. Change date to today. Add socket low power WLAN CF card Add SMC 2602W which I use all the time Comment out the create-ibss example. FreeBSD doesn't yet have that media option. Also change it to master-ibss since that's what OpenBSD really uses (and that is a change in their man page too)
2002-05-03 05:47:38 +00:00
.Dd May 2, 2002
Remove the MD part from the document title. Forgotten by: obrien
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.Dt WI 4
mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.
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.Os
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.Sh NAME
.Nm wi
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Nd WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM-II and Spectrum24 802.11DS wireless network driver
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
Third round of config related changes to the manpages. device blah0 -> device blah for PCI devices and busses.
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.Cd "device wi"
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
driver provides support for wireless network adapters based around
the Lucent Hermes, Intersil PRISM-II, Intersil PRISM-2.5, and Symbol
Spectrum24 chipsets.
All four chipsets provide a similar interface to the driver.
.Pp
All host/device interaction is via programmed I/O.
Supported features include 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management, BSS,
IBSS, WDS and ad-hoc operation modes.
Cards based on the Intersil PRISM-II and PRISM-2.5 chips also support a
host-based access point mode which allows a card to act as a normal access
point (with some assistance from the
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
.Nm
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
driver).
The Lucent Hermes and Symbol Spectrum24 chipsets do not contain this
functionality.
Minor tweaks: o go ahead and document ibss-master and ibss modes, since there are patches in the pipeline to support them. o Note that they aren't implemented yet. o Note that different regulatory domains have different default channels. o Note that Lucent cards prior to firmware 6.0.4 do not support ibss mode, and only support the older demo ad-hoc mode. o Note that PRISM2 chipsets do not support WDS mode of operation (the mysterious -p 2 option).
2002-05-03 18:11:17 +00:00
PRISM-II and PRISM-2.5 chips do not support the WDS functionality.
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Pp
Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.
2000-03-02 14:54:02 +00:00
The
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.Nm
driver encapsulates all IP and ARP traffic as 802.11 frames, however
Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.
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it can receive either 802.11 or 802.3 frames.
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
Transmit speed is selectable between 1Mbps fixed, 2Mbps fixed, 2Mbps
with auto fallback, 5.5Mbps, 8Mbps, or 11Mbps depending on your hardware.
The Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE Silver and Gold cards as well as the Intersil
and Symbol cards have support for WEP encryption.
The WaveLAN Gold as well as newer Intersil and Symbol cards support
104bit keys, the others only accept 40bit keys.
The Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE Bronze cards do not support WEP at all.
To enable encryption, use the
.Xr wicontrol 8
Additional patches from OpenBSD. Mostly grammar fixes and the like, however I'm adding the Dlink DWL520 as supported from OpenBSD. Also adding Dlink DWL650 since I have one in my hot little hands and it works great. # I suspect that OpenBSD needs this too :-)
2002-05-03 05:39:16 +00:00
utility to set your keys, or use
.Xr ifconfig 8
as shown below.
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.Pp
By default, the
.Nm
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
driver configures the card for BSS operation (aka infrastructure
mode).
This mode requires the use of an access point (base station).
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver also supports an ad-hoc (point-to-point) mode where
Minor tweaks: o go ahead and document ibss-master and ibss modes, since there are patches in the pipeline to support them. o Note that they aren't implemented yet. o Note that different regulatory domains have different default channels. o Note that Lucent cards prior to firmware 6.0.4 do not support ibss mode, and only support the older demo ad-hoc mode. o Note that PRISM2 chipsets do not support WDS mode of operation (the mysterious -p 2 option).
2002-05-03 18:11:17 +00:00
the ssid is ignored and stations can communicate amongst
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
themselves without the aid of an access point.
Note that there are two possible ad-hoc modes.
One mode, referred to as
.Dq ad-hoc demo mode ,
predates the IEEE 802.11 specification and so may not interoperate
with cards from other vendors.
Additional patches from OpenBSD. Mostly grammar fixes and the like, however I'm adding the Dlink DWL520 as supported from OpenBSD. Also adding Dlink DWL650 since I have one in my hot little hands and it works great. # I suspect that OpenBSD needs this too :-)
2002-05-03 05:39:16 +00:00
The standardized ad-hoc mode, also known as IBSS mode, is not
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
supported by cards with very old firmware revisions.
.Pp
Cards based on the Intersil PRISM-II and PRISM-2.5 chips also
have a host-based access point mode which allows the card to
act as an access point (base station).
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Pp
Cards supported by the
.Nm
driver come in a variety of packages, though the most common
are of the PCMCIA type.
In many cases, the PCI version of a wireless card is simply
a PCMCIA card bundled with a PCI adapter.
The PCI adapters come in two flavors: true PCMCIA bridges and
dumb PCMCIA bridges.
A true PCMCIA bridge (such as those sold by Lucent) will attach
as a real PCMCIA controller.
The wireless card will then attach to the PCMCIA bus.
Wireless cards in PCMCIA slots may be inserted and ejected on the fly.
.br
A dumb bridge, on the other hand, does not show up as a true PCMCIA bus.
The wireless card will simply appear to the host as a normal PCI
device and will not require any PCMCIA support.
Cards in this type of adapter should only be removed when the
machine is powered down.
.Pp
Additional patches from OpenBSD. Mostly grammar fixes and the like, however I'm adding the Dlink DWL520 as supported from OpenBSD. Also adding Dlink DWL650 since I have one in my hot little hands and it works great. # I suspect that OpenBSD needs this too :-)
2002-05-03 05:39:16 +00:00
The following cards are among those supported by the
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Nm
driver:
.Pp
.in +\n(dIu
.TS
tab (:) ;
l l l
_ _ _
l l l .
Card:Chip:Bus
3Com AirConnect 3CRWE737A:Spectrum24:PCMCIA
3Com AirConnect 3CRWE777A:Prism-II:PCI
ACTIONTEC HWC01170:Prism-2.5:PCMCIA
Addtron AWP-100:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Agere Orinoco:Hermes:PCMCIA
Buffalo AirStation:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Buffalo AirStation:Prism-II:CF
Cabletron RoamAbout:Hermes:PCMCIA
Compaq Agency NC5004:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Contec FLEXLAN/FX-DS110-PCC:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Corega PCC-11:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Corega PCCA-11:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Corega PCCB-11:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Corega CGWLPCIA11:Prism-II:PCI
Additional patches from OpenBSD. Mostly grammar fixes and the like, however I'm adding the Dlink DWL520 as supported from OpenBSD. Also adding Dlink DWL650 since I have one in my hot little hands and it works great. # I suspect that OpenBSD needs this too :-)
2002-05-03 05:39:16 +00:00
Dlink DWL520:Prism-2.5:PCI
Dlink DWL650:Prism-2.5:PCMCIA
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
ELSA XI300:Prism-II:PCMCIA
ELSA XI800:Prism-II:CF
EMTAC A2424i:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Ericsson Wireless LAN CARD C11:Spectrum24:PCMCIA
Gemtek WL-311:Prism-2.5:PCMCIA
Hawking Technology WE110P:Prism-2.5:PCMCIA
I-O DATA WN-B11/PCM:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Additional patches from OpenBSD. Mostly grammar fixes and the like, however I'm adding the Dlink DWL520 as supported from OpenBSD. Also adding Dlink DWL650 since I have one in my hot little hands and it works great. # I suspect that OpenBSD needs this too :-)
2002-05-03 05:39:16 +00:00
Intel PRO/Wireless 2011:Spectrum24:PCMCIA
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
Intersil Prism II:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Intersil Mini-PCI:Prism-2.5:PCI
Linksys Instant Wireless WPC11:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Linksys Instant Wireless WPC11 2.5:Prism-2.5:PCMCIA
Lucent WaveLAN:Hermes:PCMCIA
NANOSPEED ROOT-RZ2000:Prism-II:PCMCIA
NDC/Sohoware NCP130:Prism-II:PCI
NEC CMZ-RT-WP:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Netgear MA401:Prism-II:PCMCIA
NTT-ME 11Mbps Wireless LAN:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Proxim RangeLAN-DS:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Samsung MagicLAN SWL-2000N:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Remove Apple Airport card, since it seems to be mac-only. Change date to today. Add socket low power WLAN CF card Add SMC 2602W which I use all the time Comment out the create-ibss example. FreeBSD doesn't yet have that media option. Also change it to master-ibss since that's what OpenBSD really uses (and that is a change in their man page too)
2002-05-03 05:47:38 +00:00
Socket Low Power WLAN-CF:Prism-II:CF
SMC 2602 EZ Connect (3.3V):Prism-II:PCI or PCMCIA
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
SMC 2632 EZ Connect:Prism-II:PCMCIA
Remove Apple Airport card, since it seems to be mac-only. Change date to today. Add socket low power WLAN CF card Add SMC 2602W which I use all the time Comment out the create-ibss example. FreeBSD doesn't yet have that media option. Also change it to master-ibss since that's what OpenBSD really uses (and that is a change in their man page too)
2002-05-03 05:47:38 +00:00
Symbol Spectrum24:Spectrum24:PCMCIA
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
TDK LAK-CD011WL:Prism-II:PCMCIA
.TE
.in -\n(dIu
.Pp
Several vendors sell PCI adapters built around the PLX Technology 9050
or 9052 chip.
The following such adapters are supported or expected to work:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width -compact
.It 3Com AirConnect 3CRWE777A (3.3V)
.It Belkin F5D6000 (a rebadged WL11000P)
.It Eumitcom WL11000P
.It Global Sun Technology GL24110P (untested)
.It Global Sun Technology GL24110P02
.It LinkSys WDT11 (a rebadged GL24110P02)
.It Netgear MA301
.It US Robotics 2415 (rebadged WL11000P)
.El
.Pp
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following examples utilize
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
.Xr ifconfig 8
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
for simplicity, however,
.Xr wicontrol 8
can also be used to set wireless parameters.
.Pp
Join an existing BSS network (ie: connect to an access point):
.Dl # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00
.Pp
Join a specific BSS network with network name
.Dq my_net .
.Dl # ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net
.br
.Pp
Join a specific BSS network with WEP encryption:
.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
# ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e
wepkey 0x8736639624
.Ed
.Pp
Join an ad-hoc network with network name
.Dq my_net .
.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
# ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e
mediaopt adhoc
.Ed
Minor tweaks: o go ahead and document ibss-master and ibss modes, since there are patches in the pipeline to support them. o Note that they aren't implemented yet. o Note that different regulatory domains have different default channels. o Note that Lucent cards prior to firmware 6.0.4 do not support ibss mode, and only support the older demo ad-hoc mode. o Note that PRISM2 chipsets do not support WDS mode of operation (the mysterious -p 2 option).
2002-05-03 18:11:17 +00:00
.Pp
Create an IBBS network with network name
.Dq my_net .
.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
# ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e
mediaopt ibss-master
.Ed
Note: The infrastructure for mediaopt ibss-master has not been
committed yet.
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Pp
Join an IBBS network with network name
.Dq my_net .
.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
# ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.22 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e
mediaopt ibss
.Ed
Minor tweaks: o go ahead and document ibss-master and ibss modes, since there are patches in the pipeline to support them. o Note that they aren't implemented yet. o Note that different regulatory domains have different default channels. o Note that Lucent cards prior to firmware 6.0.4 do not support ibss mode, and only support the older demo ad-hoc mode. o Note that PRISM2 chipsets do not support WDS mode of operation (the mysterious -p 2 option).
2002-05-03 18:11:17 +00:00
Note: The infrastructure for mediaopt ibss has not been
committed yet.
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Pp
Create a host-based access point (Prism only):
.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
# ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_ap \e
mediaopt hostap
.Ed
.Pp
Create a host-based access point with WEP enabled (Prism only):
.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
# ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_ap \e
wepkey 0x1234567890 mediaopt hostap
.Ed
.Pp
Create a host-based wireless bridge to fxp0 (Prism only):
.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
Add BRIDGE to the kernel config.
# ifconfig wi0 inet up ssid my_ap mediaopt hostap
# sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1
# sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="wi0 fxp0"
# sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
.Ed
Minor tweaks: o go ahead and document ibss-master and ibss modes, since there are patches in the pipeline to support them. o Note that they aren't implemented yet. o Note that different regulatory domains have different default channels. o Note that Lucent cards prior to firmware 6.0.4 do not support ibss mode, and only support the older demo ad-hoc mode. o Note that PRISM2 chipsets do not support WDS mode of operation (the mysterious -p 2 option).
2002-05-03 18:11:17 +00:00
This will give you approximately the same functionality as an access
point.
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "wi%d: init failed"
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
The WaveLAN card failed to come ready after an initialization command
was issued.
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
.It "wi%d: failed to allocate %d bytes on NIC"
The driver was unable to allocate memory for transmit frames in the
NIC's on-board RAM.
Correct typo ("wd" -> "wi").
2000-03-03 06:58:30 +00:00
.It "wi%d: device timeout"
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
The WaveLAN failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit
command.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
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2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Xr an 4 ,
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
.Xr arp 4 ,
Removed whitespace at end-of-line; no content changes. I simply did cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//' BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block... Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b MFC after: 7 days
2001-07-14 19:41:16 +00:00
.Xr netintro 4 ,
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr wicontrol 8
.Rs
.%T HCF Light programming specification
.%O http://www.wavelan.com
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Fx 3.0 .
Various man page cleanup: - Sort xrefs - FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org - Be consistent with section names as outlined in mdoc(7). - Other misc mdoc cleanup. PR: doc/13144 Submitted by: Alexey M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
1999-08-15 10:48:36 +00:00
.Sh AUTHORS
Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
The
.Nm
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>.
This man page comes from
.Ox .
.Sh CAVEATS
The original Lucent WaveLAN cards usually default to channel 3;
newer cards use channel 10 by default.
Non-Lucent cards vary, for instance the Addtron cards use channel
11 by default.
Minor tweaks: o go ahead and document ibss-master and ibss modes, since there are patches in the pipeline to support them. o Note that they aren't implemented yet. o Note that different regulatory domains have different default channels. o Note that Lucent cards prior to firmware 6.0.4 do not support ibss mode, and only support the older demo ad-hoc mode. o Note that PRISM2 chipsets do not support WDS mode of operation (the mysterious -p 2 option).
2002-05-03 18:11:17 +00:00
Different regulatory domains have different default channels.
Bring the wi man page into the 21st centry. This man page is based heavily on OpenBSD's wi man page, with OpenBSDisms replaced by FreeBSDisms. I also added a note about where the man page came from. I hope that I've not broken anything that ru cleaned up. We now run this through tbl, but that appears to be automatic. Obtained From: OpenBSD
2002-05-02 22:51:40 +00:00
See
.Xr wicontrol 8
for information on how to change the channel.
.Pp
IBSS creation does not currently work with Symbol cards.
.Pp
Prism2 host-based access point mode has bugs for firmware versions
prior to 0.8.3.
Minor tweaks: o go ahead and document ibss-master and ibss modes, since there are patches in the pipeline to support them. o Note that they aren't implemented yet. o Note that different regulatory domains have different default channels. o Note that Lucent cards prior to firmware 6.0.4 do not support ibss mode, and only support the older demo ad-hoc mode. o Note that PRISM2 chipsets do not support WDS mode of operation (the mysterious -p 2 option).
2002-05-03 18:11:17 +00:00
.Pp
Lucent cards prior to firmware version 6.0.4 do not support ibss
mode.
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