IPW(4) | Device Drivers Manual | IPW(4) |
ipw
— Intel
PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11b wireless network device
ipw* at pci?
The ipw
driver provides support for the
Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Mini PCI network adapter.
These are the modes the ipw
driver can
operate in:
The ipw
driver can be configured to use
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA1 and WPA2).
WPA2 is the current encryption standard for wireless networks. It is
strongly recommended that neither WEP nor WPA1 are used as the sole
mechanism to secure wireless communication, due to serious weaknesses. WPA1
is disabled by default and may be enabled using the option
"wpaprotos
wpa1,wpa2". For standard WPA networks which use
pre-shared keys (PSK), keys are configured using the
"wpakey
" option. WPA-Enterprise networks
require use of the wpa_supplicant package. The ipw
driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for both encryption and
decryption of data frames.
The ipw
driver can be configured at
runtime with ifconfig(8) or on boot
with hostname.if(5).
The driver needs at least version 1.3 of the following firmware files, which are loaded when an interface is brought up:
These firmware files are not free because Intel refuses to grant distribution rights without contractual obligations. As a result, even though OpenBSD includes the driver, the firmware files cannot be included and users have to find these files on their own. The official person to state your views to about this issue is majid.awad@intel.com.
A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using fw_update(1).
The following example scans for available networks:
# ifconfig ipw0 scan
The following hostname.if(5) example configures ipw0 to join network “mynwid”, using WPA key “mywpakey”, obtaining an IP address using DHCP:
nwid mynwid wpakey mywpakey dhcp
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
The ipw
driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.7.
The ipw
driver was written by
Damien Bergamini
<damien.bergamini@free.fr>.
This driver does not support powersave mode.
November 10, 2019 | OpenBSD-current |