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38 .Nd "Aironet Communications 4500/4800 wireless network adapter driver"
40 To compile this driver into the kernel,
41 place the following lines in your
42 kernel configuration file:
43 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
48 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
49 module at boot time, place the following line in
51 .Bd -literal -offset indent
54 .Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
55 This driver is scheduled for removal prior to the release of
60 driver provides support for Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800
61 wireless network adapters and variants, including the following:
63 .Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
65 Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800 series
67 Cisco Aironet 340 and 350 series
69 Xircom Wireless Ethernet Adapter
72 Support for these devices include the ISA, PCI and PCMCIA
74 The Aironet 4500 series adapters operate at 1 and 2Mbps while
75 the Aironet 4800 series and Cisco adapters can operate at 1, 2, 5.5 and 11Mbps.
77 and PCMCIA devices are all based on the same core PCMCIA modules
78 and all have the same programming interface, however unlike the
79 Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE cards, the ISA and PCI cards appear to the
80 host as normal ISA and PCI devices and do not require any PCCARD
83 The PCMCIA Aironet cards require PC Card support, including the
87 ISA cards can either be configured to use ISA Plug and Play
88 or to use a particular I/O address and IRQ
89 by properly setting the DIP switches on the board.
91 switch setting is for Plug and Play.)
94 driver has Plug and Play support and will work in either configuration,
95 however when using a hard-wired I/O address and IRQ, the driver
96 configuration and the NIC's switch settings must agree.
98 require no switch settings of any kind and will be automatically
101 All host/device interaction with the Aironet cards is via programmed I/O.
102 The Aironet devices support 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management,
103 BSS (infrastructure) and IBSS (ad-hoc) operation modes.
106 driver encapsulates all IP and ARP traffic as 802.11 frames, however
107 it can receive either 802.11 or 802.3 frames.
109 selectable between 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps or
110 "auto" (the NIC automatically chooses the best speed).
114 driver configures the Aironet card for infrastructure operation.
116 For more information on configuring this device, see
120 .It "an%d: init failed"
121 The Aironet card failed to become ready after an initialization command was
123 .It "an%d: failed to allocate %d bytes on NIC"
124 The driver was unable to allocate memory for transmit frames in the
126 .It "an%d: device timeout"
127 The Aironet card failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit
141 device driver first appeared in
146 driver was written by
147 .An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ee.columbia.edu .