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145 lines
4.8 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: an.4,v 1.13 2014/03/18 18:20:39 riastradh Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
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.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
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.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/an.4,v 1.6 2000/11/17 11:43:59 ru Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd December 13, 2000
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.Dt AN 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm an
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.Nd
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Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340/350 series wireless network driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "an* at pcmcia? function ?"
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.Cd "an* at pci? dev ? function ?"
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.Cd "an* at isapnp?"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides support for Aironet Communications 4500/4800
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and Cisco Aironet 340/350 series
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wireless network adapters.
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This includes the ISA, PCI and PCMCIA
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varieties.
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The 4500 series adapters operate at 1 and 2Mbps while
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the 4800 series and 340/350 series can operate at 1, 2, 5.5 and 11Mbps.
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The ISA, PCI
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and PCMCIA devices are all based on the same core PCMCIA modules
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and all have the same programming interface, however unlike the
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Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE cards, the ISA and PCI cards appear to the
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host as normal ISA and PCI devices and do not require any PCMCIA
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support.
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.Pp
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The PCMCIA Aironet cards require PCMCIA support.
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ISA cards can either be configured to use ISA Plug and Play
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or to use a particular I/O address and IRQ
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by properly setting the DIP switches on the board.
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(The default switch setting is for plug and play.)
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The
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.Nm
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driver has Plug and Play support and will work in either configuration,
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however when using a hard-wired I/O address and IRQ, the driver
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configuration and the NIC's switch settings must agree.
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PCI cards
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require no switch settings of any kind and will be automatically
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probed and attached.
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.Pp
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All host/device interaction with the Aironet cards is via programmed I/O.
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The Aironet devices support 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management,
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BSS (infrastructure) and IBSS (ad-hoc) operation modes.
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The
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.Nm
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driver encapsulates all IP and ARP traffic as 802.11 frames, however
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it can receive either 802.11 or 802.3 frames.
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Transmit speed is selectable between 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps, or
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.Dq auto
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(the NIC automatically chooses the best speed).
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.Pp
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By default, the
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.Nm
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driver configures the Aironet card to join an access point with an SSID
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of null string.
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For ad-hoc mode, in which
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stations can communicate among each other without the aid of an access
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point, the driver must be set using
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.Xr ifconfig 8 .
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.Pp
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For more information on configuring this device, see
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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and
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.Xr ifmedia 4 .
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.Sh HARDWARE
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Cards supported by the
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.Nm
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driver include:
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.Pp
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.Bl -item -offset indent
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.It
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Aironet 4500 Series
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.It
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Aironet 4800 Series
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.It
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Cisco Aironet 340 Series
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.It
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Cisco Aironet 350 Series
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.El
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Bl -diag
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.It "an%d: init failed"
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The Aironet card failed to come ready after an initialization command was
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issued.
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.It "an%d: failed to allocate %d bytes on NIC"
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The driver was unable to allocate memory for transmit frames in the
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NIC's on-board RAM.
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.It "an%d: device timeout"
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The Aironet card failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit
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command.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr arp 4 ,
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.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
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.Xr netintro 4 ,
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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device driver first appeared in
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.Fx 4.0 ,
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and then in
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.Nx 1.6 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written by
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.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ee.columbia.edu .
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