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38 .Nd configure Aironet Arlan 655 device
43 .Ar iface Cm country Ar country Pq Cm 9 Ns - Ns Cm 15
45 .Ar iface Cm priority Ar priority Pq Cm normal , high , highest
47 .Ar iface Cm txretry Ar txretry
55 utility controls the operation of Aironet Arlan 655 wireless networking
59 Most of the parameters that can be changed are related to the
60 Aironet protocol which the Aironet Arlan 655 card implements.
63 utility can also be used to view the current NIC status, configuration,
64 and to dump out the values of the card's statistics counters.
70 should be the logical interface name associated with the Aironet Arlan 655
73 etc.) and must be specified.
75 The options are as follows:
76 .Bl -tag -width indent
78 Display current settings of the specified wireless interface.
79 This retrieves current card settings from the driver and prints
81 .It Ar iface Cm country Ar country Pq Cm 9 Ns - Ns Cm 15
84 parameters that depend on the
86 according to the following table:
87 .Bl -column ".No North America" ".Em Channel" ".Em MHz"
88 .Em "Country Ch_Set MHz"
89 .It "North America" Ta 9 Ta "2412, 2427, 2442, 2457, 2465"
90 .It "U.S.A" Ta 9 Ta "2412, 2427, 2442, 2457, 2465"
91 .It "Canada" Ta 9 Ta "2412, 2427, 2442, 2457, 2465"
92 .It "Mexico" Ta 9 Ta "2412, 2427, 2442, 2457, 2465"
93 .It "New Zealand" Ta 9 Ta "2412, 2427, 2442, 2457, 2465"
94 .It "E.T.S.I" Ta 10 Ta "2412, 2427, 2442, 2457, 2472"
95 .It "Japan" Ta 11 Ta "2484"
96 .It "France" Ta 12 Ta "2457, 2465, 2475"
97 .It "Australia" Ta 13 Ta "2411, 2425, 2439"
98 .It "Germany" Ta 14 Ta "2427, 2442, 2457"
99 .It "U.K.(MPT1349)" Ta 15 Ta "2460"
100 .It "U.K." Ta 15 Ta "2460"
101 .It "Spain" Ta 15 Ta "2460"
103 .It Ar iface Cm priority Ar priority Pq Cm normal , high , highest
106 parameter to set the priority of the Arlan 655 Radio Media Access Control
111 The higher the priority is set, the more likely this unit will be the first
112 to successfully transmit a packet when multiple units are trying
113 to transmit at the same time.
115 The percentage of units on your network that you set to values other than
117 should be kept small - 10 percent or less.
118 .It Ar iface Cm txretry Ar txretry
119 Set transmit retries.
122 Print internal Arlan 655 statistics block.
123 .It Ar iface Cm quality
124 Display the cached signal level and quality maintained by the
127 The driver retains information about quality and level for packets
128 received from different hosts.
129 Also the driver extracts values from ACK packets.
132 .Bd -literal -offset indent
133 arlcontrol arl0 country 11 priority high
134 arlcontrol arl0 quality
139 You can configure the Arlan 655 card from
140 .Pa /etc/start_if.arl0 .
142 .Bd -literal -offset indent
144 /usr/sbin/arlcontrol country 9 priority highest
149 .%T "Arlan 655 ISA Wireless LAN Client Card User Guide"
154 utility first appeared in
160 utility was written by
161 .Aq ran@styx.aic.net .
162 This manpage was written by
163 .An Yuri Kurenkov Aq y.kurenkov@init.ru .
165 Aironet Arlan 640 bridges and Arlan 630 access points do not understand
166 country codes other than 9.