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33 .Dd September 10, 1999
38 .Nd "Aironet Communications 4500/4800 wireless network adapter driver"
44 driver provides support for Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800
45 wireless network adapters.
46 This includes the PCI and PCMCIA
48 The 4500 series adapters operate at 1 and 2Mbps while
49 the 4800 series can operate at 1, 2, 5.5 and 11Mbps.
51 and PCMCIA devices are all based on the same core PCMCIA modules
52 and all have the same programming interface, however unlike the
53 Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE cards, the PCI cards appear to the
54 host as normal PCI devices and do not require any PCCARD
56 The PCMCIA Aironet cards require kernel pccard driver support.
58 require no switch settings of any kind and will be automatically
61 All host/device interaction with the Aironet cards is via programmed I/O.
62 The Aironet devices support 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management,
63 BSS (infrastructure) and IBSS (ad-hoc) operation modes.
66 driver encapsulates all IP and ARP traffic as 802.11 frames, however
67 it can receive either 802.11 or 802.3 frames.
69 selectable between 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps or
70 "auto" (the NIC automatically chooses the best speed).
74 driver configures the Aironet card for infrastructure operation.
76 For more information on configuring this device, see
80 .It "an%d: init failed"
81 The Aironet card failed to come ready after an initialization command was
83 .It "an%d: failed to allocate %d bytes on NIC"
84 The driver was unable to allocate memory for transmit frames in the
86 .It "an%d: device timeout"
87 The Aironet card failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit
99 device driver first appeared in
104 driver was written by
105 .An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ee.columbia.edu .