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author | Damien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-07-28 20:10:29 +0000 |
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committer | Damien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-07-28 20:10:29 +0000 |
commit | 5fca48e0f668901fe0bc1ce2da18122119e3fa99 (patch) | |
tree | 0604cfb53a866aca5cee76a8208664eddc011130 /share/man/man4/bwi.4 | |
parent | 6fad5bb8bd2db82610debe7ef7321f529442c9bb (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.4 | 37 |
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 |