Driver for the Broadcom-based 802.11b/g wireless Ethernet controller
io-net -d bcm43xx [option[,option ...]] ... &
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Use commas (,), not spaces, to separate the options. |
- authtype=type
- The authentication scheme to use: open (the default) or
sharedkey.
- channel=num
- The 802.11 channel to use. Scans in bss mode.
- default_key=[1-4]
- Which of the keys given by the key[1-4] options to use for the
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm, which is part of the 802.11
standard.
- ioport=port
- The I/O port of the interface.
It's automatically detected by default.
- irq=num
- The IRQ of the interface.
It's automatically detected by default.
- key[1-4]=KEY
- Set up one of the four default WEP keys, where KEY
is a hex string of 10 (64- or 40-bit WEP) or 26 (128-bit WEP) characters.
For example, key1=0x0102030405.
- mac=XXXXXXXXXXXX
- The MAC address of controller.
The default is automatically detected on supported hardware.
- mode=mode
- The 802.11 network mode: bss (access point),
ibss (802.11 ad hoc) or adhoc (802.11 ad hoc).
The default is bss (access point).
- ssid=name
- The 802.11 network name to use (SSID). Scans in bss mode.
- station=name
- The station name for this machine. Defaults to the value of the
CS_HOSTNAME configuration string.
- verbose
verbose=num
- Be verbose. Specify num for more verbosity (num
can be 1-4, the higher the number, the more detailed the output).
The output goes to
slogger;
invoke
sloginfo
to view it.
The devn-bcm43xx.so driver controls the Broadcom-based 802.11b/g
wireless Ethernet controller.
Start io-net using the Broadcom 43xx driver and the full TCP/IP
stack:
io-net -d bcm43xx channel=10,ssid=work -p tcpip
Start io-net using the Broadcom 43xx driver and 64-bit WEP:
io-net -d bcm43xx key1=0x0102030405,default_key=1,ssid=home,authtype=sharedkey
- /dev/io-net
- The directory where, by default, drivers and protocol modules add
entries.
For more information, the documentation for
io-net.
io-net
"Network drivers (devn-*)"
and
"Network protocol interfaces (npm-*)"
in the Utilities Summary