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author | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-11-17 11:59:45 +0000 |
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committer | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-11-17 11:59:45 +0000 |
commit | 845d5c92054d6c2575ed0fff29c03c77ea57ee86 (patch) | |
tree | a8fd32797c32b099429a7d14a5114367949697b6 | |
parent | 2d47a0326789247af726413c4a9e0a03fb415cb7 (diff) |
update wpa related info; om damien@ jmc@
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/ath.4 | 27 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ath.4 b/share/man/man4/ath.4 index 09100913f4e..0185c5f9617 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ath.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ath.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ath.4,v 1.43 2008/08/29 09:44:16 damien Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ath.4,v 1.44 2008/11/17 11:59:44 otto Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: ath.4,v 1.5 2004/07/03 16:58:18 mycroft Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Sam Leffler, Errno Consulting @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ .\" $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/ath.4,v 1.16 2004/02/18 08:30:08 maxim Exp $ .\" parts from $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/ath_hal.4,v 1.7 2004/01/07 20:49:51 blackend Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: August 29 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 17 2008 $ .Dt ATH 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -123,15 +123,18 @@ or to scan for access points. .Pp The .Nm -driver can be configured to use hardware -Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP). +driver can be configured to use +Wireless 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. .Pp AR5211 and AR5212 support the AES, TKIP, and Michael cryptographic -operations required for WPA but at this time the driver does not support them. +operations required for WPA in hardware but at this time the driver +does not support them. .Pp The .Nm @@ -215,16 +218,19 @@ inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect \e mediaopt hostap nwid my_net chan 11 .Ed .Pp -Configure ath0 for WEP, using hex key -.Dq 0x1deadbeef1 : +Configure ath0 to join network +.Dq my_net +using WPA-PSK with passphrase +.Dq my_passphrase : .Bd -literal -offset indent -# ifconfig ath0 nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 +# ifconfig ath0 nwid my_net wpa wpapsk \e + $(wpa-psk my_net my_passphrase) .Ed .Pp Return ath0 to its default settings: .Bd -literal -offset indent # ifconfig ath0 -bssid -chan media autoselect \e - nwid "" -nwkey -powersave + nwid "" -nwkey -wpa -wpapsk .Ed .Pp Join an existing BSS network, @@ -319,7 +325,8 @@ This should not happen. .Xr hostname.if 5 , .Xr gpioctl 8 , .Xr hostapd 8 , -.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Xr ifconfig 8, +.Xr wpa-psk 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm |