NAME¶
malo
—
Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network
driver
SYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel
configuration file:
device malo
device pci
device wlan
device firmware
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
lines in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
The
malo
driver provides support for Marvell
Libertas 88W8335 based PCI and Cardbus network adapters.
malo
supports
station
and
monitor
mode operation. Only one virtual
interface may be configured at any time. For more information on configuring
this device, see
ifconfig(8).
This driver requires the
malofw
firmware
kernel module be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not
publicly available. A port of the firmware can be found at:
The firmware kernel module can be installed by extracting the archive and
running ‘
make install clean
’ in the
malo-firmware-1.4 directory.
HARDWARE¶
The following cards are among those supported by the
malo
driver:
Card |
Chip |
Bus |
Standard |
Netgear WG311v3 |
88W8335 |
PCI |
b/g |
Tenda TWL542P |
88W8335 |
PCI |
b/g |
U-Khan UW-2054i |
88W8335 |
PCI |
b/g |
EXAMPLES¶
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
ifconfig wlan create wlandev malo0 inet 192.168.0.20 \
netmask 0xffffff00
Join a specific BSS network with network name
“
my_net
”:
ifconfig wlan create wlandev malo0
ssid my_net up
Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
ifconfig wlan create wlandev malo0 ssid my_net \
wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
SEE ALSO¶
cardbus(4),
pci(4),
wlan(4),
wlan_ccmp(4),
wlan_tkip(4),
wlan_wep(4),
ifconfig(8),
wpa_supplicant(8)
HISTORY¶
The
malo
device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 7.1.