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authorDamien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-07-28 20:10:29 +0000
committerDamien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-07-28 20:10:29 +0000
commit5fca48e0f668901fe0bc1ce2da18122119e3fa99 (patch)
tree0604cfb53a866aca5cee76a8208664eddc011130 /share/man/man4/bwi.4
parent6fad5bb8bd2db82610debe7ef7321f529442c9bb (diff)
document WPA-PSK support.
"i would really appreciate just something going in" jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/bwi.4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/bwi.437
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/bwi.4 b/share/man/man4/bwi.4
index e1d9f24e7a6..2936a6f77e2 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/bwi.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/bwi.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bwi.4,v 1.19 2008/04/17 14:01:22 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bwi.4,v 1.20 2008/07/28 20:10:28 damien Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Marcus Glocker <mglocker@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 28 2008 $
.Os
.Dt BWI 4
.Sh NAME
@@ -59,17 +59,14 @@ capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to,
or to scan for access points.
.El
.Pp
-.\" .Nm
-.\" supports hardware WEP.
-.\" Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the de facto encryption standard
-.\" for wireless networks.
-.\" It can be typically configured in one of three modes:
-.\" no encryption; 40-bit encryption; or 104-bit encryption.
-.\" Unfortunately, due to serious weaknesses in WEP protocol
-.\" it is strongly recommended that it not be used as the
-.\" sole mechanism to secure wireless communication.
-.\" WEP is not enabled by default.
-.\" .Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver can be configured to use the WEP, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK protocols.
+The
+.Nm
+driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for both encryption and decryption
+of data frames.
+.Pp
The transmit speed is user-selectable or can be adapted automatically by the
driver depending on the received signal strength and on the number of hardware
transmission retries.
@@ -138,16 +135,19 @@ dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11
.\" mediaopt hostap nwid my_net chan 11
.Ed
.Pp
-Configure bwi0 for WEP, using hex key
-.Dq 0x1deadbeef1 :
+Configure bwi0 to join network
+.Dq my_net
+using WPA-PSK with passphrase
+.Dq my_passphrase :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-# ifconfig bwi0 nwkey 0x1deadbeef1
+# _psk=$(wpa-psk my_net my_passphrase)
+# ifconfig bwi0 nwid my_net wpa wpapsk ${_psk}
.Ed
.Pp
Return bwi0 to its default settings:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# ifconfig bwi0 -bssid -chan media autoselect \e
- nwid "" -nwkey
+ nwid "" -nwkey -wpa -wpapsk
.Ed
.Pp
Join an existing BSS network,
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ Join an existing BSS network,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
.\".Xr hostapd 8 ,
-.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
+.Xr wpa-psk 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm