mwl(7D) Devices mwl(7D)NAMEmwl - Marvell 88W8363 IEEE802.11b/g Wireless Network Device Driver
DESCRIPTION
The mwl IEEE802.11b/g wireless network device driver is a multi-
threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the
Marvell 88W8363 IEEE802.11b/g wireless network device.
Configuration
The mwl driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and
mode. The driver supports only BSS networks (also known as ap or infra‐
structure networks) and open (or open-system) or shared system authen‐
tication.
For wireless security, WEP encryption, WPA-PSk, and WPA2-PSK are cur‐
rently supported. You can perform configuration and administration
tasks using the dladm(1M) and wificonfig(1M) utilities.
FILES
/dev/mwl Special character device
/kernel/drv/mwl 32-bit ELF kernel module, x86
/kernel/drv/amd64/mwl 64-bit ELF kernel module, x86
/kernel/misc/mwlfw 32-bit ELF firmware kernel module, x86
/kernel/misc/amd64/mwlfw 64-bit ELF firmware kernel module, x86
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Architecture │x86 │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │driver/network/mwl │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Committed │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOdladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), dlpi(7P), gld(7D)
IEEE802.11b/g - Wireless LAN Standard - IEEE, 2003
SunOS 5.11 12 Oct 2009 mwl(7D)