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diff --git a/share/man/man4/wi.4 b/share/man/man4/wi.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6e2c59a973b --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/wi.4 @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: wi.4,v 1.1 2000/05/20 17:19:51 deraadt Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF +.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD: wi.4,v 1.3 1999/05/22 16:12:43 wpaul Exp $ +.\" +.Dd April 21, 1999 +.Dt WI 4 i386 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm wi +.Nd Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11DS PCMCIA driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "wi* at pcmcia? function ?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for WaveLAN/IEEE PCCARD adapters (also known +as WaveLAN II cards) which support IEEE 802.11 Direct Sequence. +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 +.Nm +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. +.Pp +The core of the WaveLAN/IEEE is the Lucent Hermes controller. All +host/device interaction is via programmed I/O with the Hermes. The +Hermes supports 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management, BSS, WDS +and ad-hoc operation modes. The +.Nm +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. +.Pp +By default, the +.Nm +driver configures the WaveLAN card for ad-hoc operation. In this mode, +stations can communicate among each other without the aid of an access +point. To join a service set, the driver must be set for BSS mode using +the +.Xr wicontrol 8 +utility. +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "wi%d: init failed" +The WaveLAN failed to come ready after an initialization command was +issued. +.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. +.It "wd%d: device timeout" +The WaveLAN failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit +command. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr an 4 , +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.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 . +.Ox +support was added in +.Ox 2.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> and ported to +.Ox +by Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@appli.se>. |