MALO(4) | Device Drivers Manual | MALO(4) |
NAME¶
malo — Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driverSYNOPSIS¶
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):
device pci
device wlan
device firmware
if_malo_load="YES"
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
my_net
”:
ifconfig wlan create wlandev malo0 ssid my_net
up
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.October 21, 2009 | Debian |