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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/atw.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/atw.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/atw.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98db8baf --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/atw.4 @@ -0,0 +1,238 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: atw.4,v 1.41 2025/03/27 10:21:53 jmc Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: atw.4,v 1.8 2004/06/06 04:05:49 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2003 +.\" David Young <dyoung@NetBSD.org>. 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. 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 David Young 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 David Young +.\" 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. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 27 2025 $ +.Dt ATW 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm atw +.Nd ADMtek ADM8211 IEEE 802.11b wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "atw* at cardbus?" +.Cd "atw* at pci?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports PCI/CardBus 802.11b wireless adapters based on the +ADMtek ADM8211. +.Pp +The ADM8211 is a bus-mastering 802.11 Media Access Controller (MAC) +which is derived from ADMtek's DEC/Intel 21143 clones (see +.Xr dc 4 +for more information). +It supports contention-free traffic (with an 802.11 Point Coordinator). +The ADM8211 integrates an RF3000 baseband processor (BBP) by RF +Microdevices. +.Pp +In a typical application, the ADM8211 is coupled with an RF front-end +by RFMD and a Silicon Laboratories Si4126 RF/IF synthesizer. +.Pp +With the ADM8211, the division of labor between the host and NIC +is different than with firmware-based NICs such as +.Xr an 4 +and +.Xr wi 4 . +The ADM8211 is still responsible for real-time 802.11 functions +such as sending ACK/RTS/CTS/ATIM frames, sending beacons, and +answering CF polls from the access point, but the host takes +responsibility for providing 802.11 functions such as scanning, +association, and authentication. +The host is also responsible for programming both the BBP and the +RF/IF synthesizer. +.Pp +These are the modes the +.Nm +driver can operate in: +.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX" +.It BSS mode +Also known as +.Em infrastructure +mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through +which all traffic passes. +This mode is the default. +.It IBSS mode +Also known as +.Em IEEE ad-hoc +mode or +.Em peer-to-peer +mode. +This is the standardized method of operating without an access point. +Stations associate with a service set. +However, actual connections between stations are peer-to-peer. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured to use hardware +Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) +(though see +.Sx BUGS , +below). +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +or on boot with +.Xr hostname.if 5 . +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports PCI and CardBus cards using revisions 0x11 and 0x15 +of the ADM8211 (aka ADM8211A) and revision 0x20 (aka ADM8211B). +This includes: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It 3Com OfficeConnect 3CRSHPW796 CardBus +.It Belkin F5D6001 PCI (version 2 only) +.It Blitz NetWave Point CardBus +.It D-Link DWL-650 Rev. \&L1 CardBus +.It D-Link DWL-520 Rev. \&C1 PCI +.It LanReady WP2000 PCI +.It SMC 2635W CardBus (version 1 only) +.It TRENDnet TEW-221PC CardBus +.It Xterasys XN2511B PCI +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver does not yet support cards using revision 0x30 (ADM8211C). +.\"This includes: +.\".Pp +.\".Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.\".El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following example scans for available networks: +.Pp +.Dl # ifconfig atw0 scan +.Pp +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example configures atw0 to join network +.Dq mynwid , +using WEP key +.Dq mywepkey , +obtaining an IP address using DHCP: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +join mynwid nwkey mywepkey +inet autoconf +.Ed +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "atw0: failed to tune channel N" +The driver failed to tune the radio to a new channel. +The radio remains tuned to the old channel. +.It "atw0: atw_si4136_write wrote XXXX, SYNCTL still busy" +The driver waited 100ms without seeing an indication that the +ADM8211 had finished writing a register on the Si4126 RF/IF +synthesizer. +.It "atw0: device timeout" +The ADM8211 failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit +command. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr cardbus 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Rs +.%T Silicon Laboratories +.%U https://www.silabs.com +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Ox 3.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An David Young Aq Mt dyoung@NetBSD.org . +For features which the ADM8211 has in common with the DECchip 21x4x, +code was liberally borrowed from the +.Nx +tlp driver by +.An Jason Thorpe Aq Mt thorpej@NetBSD.org . +.Sh BUGS +The author does not fully understand what processing the duration +fields for the PLCP header and the 802.11 header undergo before +they are applied to a transmitted frame. +If the duration fields in transmitted frames are incorrect, +network performance may suffer. +.Pp +The driver does not provide rate control when the media type is +set to autoselect. +.Pp +The driver will sometimes complain that it cannot re-tune the radio +because the transmit process has not gone idle. +The author is investigating. +.Pp +Many features are still missing, especially WEP decryption and +802.11 power-saving. +.Pp +The ad-hoc mode has not been rigorously tested. +IBSSs with the same SSID may not coalesce, but this should not +matter for most applications. +.Pp +The driver is untested in the ad-hoc demo mode of Lucent WaveLAN +cards. +.Pp +The ADM8211 supports 802.11 power-saving; however, +.Nm +does not support it yet. +For time-bounded service, the ADM8211 will interoperate with an +access point which implements the 802.11 Point Coordination Function; +however, this is also not supported. +.Pp +Combinations of an ADM8211 with either an Intersil or a Marvell RF +front-end are not supported. +.Pp +.Nm +contains incomplete support for the ADM8211's WEP encryption/decryption +engine. +.Nm +does not yet support hardware WEP decryption; however, it will use +the ADM8211's crypto engine to encrypt transmitted frames. +Documentation from ADMtek claims that, in addition to the 4 104-bit +shared WEP keys, the ADM8211 will store WEP key pairs for up to 20 +peers. +The documentation provides no details, hence +.Nm +does not support the 20 key-pairs. |
