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 firmwareAlternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_malo_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
Themalo 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 firmware to be loaded before it will work. The ports/net/malo-firmware-kmod port needs to be installed before ifconfig(8) will work.
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 upJoin 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.