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6 .TH PCAN 7D "Jan 24, 2007"
8 pcan \- Cisco Aironet 802.11b wireless NIC driver
12 The \fBpcan\fR wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable,
13 GLDv3-based STREAMS driver. It supports the pccard and PCI/MiniPCI cards with
14 the Cisco Aironet \fI802.11b\fR chipset. For pccard, the driver works in both
15 SPARC and x86 (32-bit/64-bit) modes. For PCI/MiniPCI card, the driver works in
17 .SH DRIVER CONFIGURATION
20 The \fBpcan\fR driver supports \fI802.11b\fR data rates of 1, 2, 5.5 and 11
21 (Mbits/sec). The default is 11.
24 The \fBpcan\fR driver supports BSS networks (also known as "ap" or
25 "infrastructure" networks) and IBSS networks (also known as "ad-hoc" networks).
26 For authentication type, the \fBpcan\fR driver supports the "open" (or
27 "open-system") mode. For encryption type, only WEP is currently supported. You
28 perform configuration and administration tasks using the \fBdladm\fR(1M) and
29 \fBwificonfig\fR(1M) utilities.
34 \fB\fB/dev/pcan*\fR\fR
37 Special character device.
43 \fB/kernel/drv/pcan \fR
46 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
52 \fB\fB/kernel/drv/amd64/pcan\fR\fR
55 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
61 \fB\fB/kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcan\fR\fR
64 64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC).
70 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for a description of the following attributes:
78 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
86 \fBdladm\fR(1M), \fBwificonfig\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBgld\fR(7D)
89 \fI802.11b Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)\fR - IEEE