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author | John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-07-04 19:13:15 +0000 |
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committer | John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-07-04 19:13:15 +0000 |
commit | 67c58e8a6e7a361a02336ca1f3804c8add5d65df (patch) | |
tree | 7de9959bc3f52d41c2d46f2908aa5c04e3f28f0e /share | |
parent | a58736493eaceb9ac808d4e54d800c24a97bb2fc (diff) | |
download | src-67c58e8a6e7a361a02336ca1f3804c8add5d65df.tar.gz src-67c58e8a6e7a361a02336ca1f3804c8add5d65df.zip |
Remove the cnw(4) driver. No one responded to calls to test it on current@
and stable@. It also is a driver for an older non-802.11 wireless PC card
that is quite slow in comparison to say, wi(4). I know Warner wants this
driver axed as well.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=180261
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/cnw.4 | 125 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 127 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile index 4af393890edd..ed74d3da9c3e 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ ciss.4 \ cm.4 \ cmx.4 \ - cnw.4 \ coda.4 \ ${_coretemp.4} \ cpufreq.4 \ @@ -442,7 +441,6 @@ MLINKS+=bce.4 if_bce.4 MLINKS+=bfe.4 if_bfe.4 MLINKS+=bge.4 if_bge.4 MLINKS+=bktr.4 brooktree.4 -MLINKS+=cnw.4 if_cnw.4 MLINKS+=crypto.4 cryptodev.4 MLINKS+=cue.4 if_cue.4 MLINKS+=dc.4 if_dc.4 diff --git a/share/man/man4/cnw.4 b/share/man/man4/cnw.4 deleted file mode 100644 index 91f5a124c5b4..000000000000 --- a/share/man/man4/cnw.4 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,125 +0,0 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: cnw.4,v 1.12 2001/09/12 18:19:17 wiz Exp $ -.\" -.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Berkeley Software Design, Inc. 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 September 5, 2004 -.Dt CNW 4 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm cnw -.Nd Netwave AirSurfer wireless network driver -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.Cd "device cnw" -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The -.Nm -interface provides access to a theoretical 1Mb/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. -.Pp -Netwave devices are not compatible with IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. -Also note that there are Netwave devices with different wireless frequency, -depending on the radio band plan in each country. -.Pp -The card uses 36K of I/O memory mapped to the card. -.\"The card uses 32K of I/O memory mapped to the card along with either 16 I/O ports -.\"or 4K of additional I/O memory for access to command registers. -.\"The driver currently only supports the use of the additional 4K of I/O memory. -You may need to increase memory space available to the PC Card controller. -See -.Xr pccard 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 -(US frequency). -They interfere with each other if they are both operated -in the same geographic region, causing weird packet loss. -You may be able to avoid the interference with IEEE 802.11 devices, -by changing the IEEE 802.11 channel. -.Sh HARDWARE -Cards supported by the -.Nm -driver include: -.Pp -.Bl -bullet -compact -.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 PC Card bus -address space into which to map the device. -See -.Xr pccard 4 -and increase memory available to the PC Card controller. -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr arp 4 , -.Xr inet 4 , -.Xr intro 4 , -.Xr pccard 4 -.Sh HISTORY -The -.Nm -driver was ported from -.Nx -by -.An Hiroyuki Aizu Aq aizu@jaist.ac.jp . -It first appeared in -.Nx 1.4 . -The first -.Fx -release to include it was -.Fx 5.0 . -This manual page was adopted from -.Nx -by -.An Christian Brueffer Aq brueffer@FreeBSD.org . |