MALO(4) | Device Drivers Manual | MALO(4) |
malo
—
malo* at pci?
malo
driver provides support for Marvell Libertas
88W8335/88W8310/88W8385 based PCI 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 de facto 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
ifconfig.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, designed to be used with pkg_add(1), can be found at:
http://www.nazgul.ch/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tgz
malo
driver:
Card | Chip | Bus | Standard |
Netgear WG311v3 | 88W8335 | PCI | b/g |
Tenda TWL542P | 88W8335 | PCI | b/g |
dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11
Join an existing BSS network, “my_net”:
# ifconfig malo0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net
malo
driver was first written by
Claudio Jeker
<claudio@openbsd.org>
and Marcus Glocker
<mglocker@openbsd.org>
and appeared first in OpenBSD 4.1.
NetBSD porting was done by Arnaud
Degroote
<degroote@NetBSD.org>.
July 30, 2012 | NetBSD 9.4 |