MALO(4) | Device Drivers Manual | MALO(4) |
malo
—
malo* at cardbus?
malo* at pci?
malo* at pcmcia?
malo
driver provides support for Marvell Libertas
88W8335/88W8310/88W8385 based PCI/CardBus/PCMCIA network adapters. The second
generation 88W8335/88W8310 chipsets support 802.11b/g.
These are the modes the malo
driver can
operate in:
The malo
driver can be configured to use
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and
WPA2-PSK). WPA is the current encryption standard for wireless networks. It
is strongly recommended that WEP not be used as the sole mechanism to secure
wireless communication, due to serious weaknesses in it. The
malo
driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for
both encryption and decryption of data frames.
The malo
driver can be configured at
runtime with ifconfig(8) or on boot
with hostname.if(5).
These firmware files are not free because Marvell refuses to grant distribution rights. As a result, even though OpenBSD includes the driver, the firmware files cannot be included and users have to download these files on their own.
A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using fw_update(1).
malo
driver:
Card | Chip | Bus | Standard |
Ambicom WL54CF | 88W8385 | PCMCIA | b/g |
I-O DATA WN-G54/CF | 88W8385 | PCMCIA | b/g |
Netgear WG511v2 | 88W8310 | CardBus | b/g |
Netgear WG311v3 | 88W8335 | PCI | b/g |
SparkLAN WCFM-100 | 88W8385 | PCMCIA | b/g |
Tenda TWL541C | 88W8310 | CardBus | b/g |
Tenda TWL542P | 88W8335 | PCI | b/g |
# ifconfig malo0 scan
The following hostname.if(5) example configures malo0 to join network “mynwid”, using WPA key “mywpakey”, obtaining an IP address using DHCP:
nwid mynwid wpakey mywpakey dhcp
malo
driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.1.
malo
driver was written by Claudio
Jeker and Marcus Glocker.
July 15, 2018 | OpenBSD-current |