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authorTodd T. Fries <todd@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-02-07 20:35:55 +0000
committerTodd T. Fries <todd@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-02-07 20:35:55 +0000
commitaef2aa606196dcb0f98b1d31026496217b0610b0 (patch)
tree0f9203a2b477b7c0891c307db7585aa17b08cc34 /share
parentccb5100ddaf9f355d5ae8fff9faffc6902c838a3 (diff)
document more recent (last year or two) support for newer hardware; ok mickey@
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/wi.418
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/wi.4 b/share/man/man4/wi.4
index 0a6ea85a283..00ac423f7f6 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/wi.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/wi.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: wi.4,v 1.5 2001/01/11 19:41:56 angelos Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: wi.4,v 1.6 2001/02/07 20:35:54 todd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ Note that while Lucent sells both ISA and PCMCIA
WaveLAN/IEEE devices, the ISA product is actually a PCMCIA card in an
ISA to PCMCIA bridge adapter. Consequently, the
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-driver is required for both the ISA and PCMCIA NICs. Both the original
-2Mbps WaveLAN/IEEE cards and the newer 6Mbps WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo
-adapters are supported.
+driver is required for both the ISA and PCMCIA NICs. The original
+WaveLAN/IEEE cards (2Mbps), the WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo (6Mbps), the
+WaveLAN/IEEE Bronze Turbo (8Mbps), and the
+WaveLAN/IEEE Silver/Gold (11Mbps) adapters are supported.
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The core of the WaveLAN/IEEE is the Lucent Hermes controller. All
host/device interaction is via programmed I/O with the Hermes. The
@@ -62,8 +63,13 @@ and ad-hoc operation modes. The
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driver encapsulates all IP and ARP traffic as 802.11 frames, however
it can receive either 802.11 or 802.3 frames. Transmit speed is
-selectable between 1Mbps fixed, 2Mbps fixed or 2Mbps with auto fallback.
-For WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo adapters, speeds up to 6Mbps are available.
+selectable between 1Mbps fixed, 2Mbps fixed, 2Mbps with auto fallback,
+6Mbps, 8Mbps, or 11Mbps depending on your hardware (see above). The
+Gold and Silver cards also have support for encryption. Silver adapters
+will do 64bit encryption and Gold adapters will do 128bit encryption.
+To enable the encryption, use the
+.Xr wicontrol 8
+utility to set your keys.
.Pp
By default, the
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