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39 Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA driver
41 .Cd "device wi0 at isa? port? irq?"
45 driver provides support for WaveLAN/IEEE PCCARD adapters (also known
46 as WaveLAN II cards). Note that while Lucent sells both ISA and PCMCIA
47 WaveLAN/IEEE devices, the ISA product is actually a PCMCIA card in an
48 ISA to PCMCIA bridge adapter. Consequently, the
50 driver is required for both the ISA and PCMCIA NICs. Both the original
51 2Mbps WaveLAN/IEEE cards and the newer 6Mbps WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo
52 adapters are supported.
54 The core of the WaveLAN/IEEE is the Lucent Hermes controller. All
55 host/device interaction is via programmed I/O with the Hermes. The
56 Hermes supports 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management, BSS, WDS
57 and ad-hoc operation modes. The
59 driver encapsulates all IP and ARP traffic as 802.11 frames, however
60 it can receive either 802.11 or 802.3 frames. Transmit speed is
61 selectable between 1Mbps fixed, 2Mbps fixed or 2Mbps with auto fallback.
62 For WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo adapters, speeds up to 6Mbps are available.
66 driver configures the WaveLAN card for ad-hoc operation. In this mode,
67 stations can communicate among each other without the aid of an access
68 point. To join a service set, the driver must be set for BSS mode using
73 For more information on configuring this device, see
77 .It "wi%d: init failed"
78 The WaveLAN failed to come ready after an initialization command was
80 .It "wi%d: failed to allocate %d bytes on NIC"
81 The driver was unable to allocate memory for transmit frames in the
83 .It "wd%d: device timeout"
84 The WaveLAN failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit
93 .%T HCF Light programming specification
94 .%O http://www.wavelan.com
99 device driver first appeared in
104 driver was written by
105 .An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .