Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.199 diff -u -r1.199 Makefile --- Makefile 20 Apr 2003 22:01:37 -0000 1.199 +++ Makefile 21 Apr 2003 18:31:54 -0000 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ cd.4 \ ch.4 \ ciss.4 \ + cnw.4 \ crypto.4 \ csa.4 \ cue.4 \ Index: cnw.4 =================================================================== RCS file: cnw.4 diff -N cnw.4 --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ cnw.4 21 Apr 2003 18:31:39 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: cnw.4,v 1.12 2001/09/12 18:19:17 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Berkeley Software Design, Inc. All rights reserved. +.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Tilman Linneweh. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that this notice is retained, +.\" the conditions in the following notices are met, and terms applying +.\" to contributors in the following notices also apply to Berkeley +.\" Software Design, Inc. +.\" +.\" 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by +.\" Berkeley Software Design, Inc. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the Berkeley Software Design, Inc. nor the names +.\" of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived +.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY BERKELEY SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC. ``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 BERKELEY SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC. 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. +.\" +.\" PAO2 Id: cnw.4,v 1.1.1.1 1997/12/11 14:46:23 itojun Exp +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.Dd April 21, 2003 +.Dt CNW 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm cnw +.Nd +.Tn Netwave AirSurfer Wireless network driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "device cnw" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm cnw +interface provides access to a theoretical 1 Mb/s wireless Ethernet network +based on the Netwave AirSurfer Wireless LAN (formerly known as the Xircom +Netwave Wireless LAN). +.Pp +Note that the driver does not support newer devices +such as the Netwave AirSurfer +.Dq Plus , +or the BayStack 650/660. +These devices are supported by the +.Xr awi 4 +driver. +.Pp +Netwave devices are not compatible with IEEE 802.11 wireless network. +Also note that there are Netwave devices with different wireless frequency, +depending on radio band plan in each countries. +.Pp +The card uses 36K of I/O memory mapped to the card. +You may need to increase memory space available to the PCMCIA controller. +See +.Xr pcmcia 4 +for details. +.Pp +In use, the cards appear to achieve up to a 420Kb/s transfer rate, though +a transfer rate between 250Kb/s and 350Kb/s is typical. +.Pp +The card operates in the 2.4GHz frequency range and is subject to interference +from microwaves, IEEE 802.11 wireless network devices, as well as earth. +For example, it seems that IEEE 802.11 channel 14 conflicts with Netwave +.Pq US frequency . +They interfere each other if we operate both of them +in the same geographic region, causing weird packet loss. +You may be able to avoid the interference with IEEE 802.11 devices, +by changing IEEE 802.11 channel. +.Sh HARDWARE +Cards supported by the +.Nm +driver include: +.Pp +.Bl -item -offset indent +.It +Xircom CreditCard Netwave +.It +NetWave AirSurfer +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "cnw0: can't map memory" +Indicates that the driver was not able to allocate enough PCMCIA bus +address space into which to map the device. +See +.Xr pcmcia 4 +and increase memory available to the PCMCIA controller. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr awi 4 , +.Xr inet 4 , +.Xr intro 4 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was originally written by +.An Paul Borman +for BSDI. +It was ported to NetBSD by +.An Michael Eriksson. +and then ported to +.Fx 5.0 by +.An Hiroyuki Aizu Aq aizu@jaist.ac.jp +and +.An M. Warner Losh Aq imp@FreeBSD.org