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author | Jonathan Gray <jsg@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-01-09 21:19:49 +0000 |
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committer | Jonathan Gray <jsg@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-01-09 21:19:49 +0000 |
commit | 4fb27973143f59ce36152403b7753b45da61e46f (patch) | |
tree | def687c2cded60e4d7cf33cfca709b70115d213a /share/man/man4 | |
parent | 49a48702134ba52fa189ddb45b5af9200dd50c54 (diff) |
Move an(4) to a driver based on the NetBSD one.
This brings net80211 support and support for newer hardware.
In addition ancontrol is no longer needed.
This driver does not yet work on big endian archs like the previous
one did.
"do it" deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/an.4 | 166 |
1 files changed, 139 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/an.4 b/share/man/man4/an.4 index de6c56937e8..ba940c8d861 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/an.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/an.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: an.4,v 1.29 2005/09/30 20:34:24 jaredy Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: an.4,v 1.30 2006/01/09 21:19:48 jsg Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 .\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved. @@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ mode. This is the standardized method of operating without an access point. Stations associate with a service set. However, actual connections between stations are peer-to-peer. +.It monitor mode +In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without +associating with an access point. +This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to +capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, +or to scan for access points. .El .Pp .Nm @@ -109,41 +115,138 @@ 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 +.Sh CONFIGURATION The .Nm -driver can be configured using -.Xr ancontrol 8 +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 or on boot with -.Xr hostname.if 5 . -.Sh EXAMPLES -Note that when setting options via -.Xr ancontrol 8 -in a .Xr hostname.if 5 -file (e.g.\& -.Pa /etc/hostname.an0 ) , -the -.Xr ancontrol 8 -commands should be specified first. +using the following parameters: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Cm bssid Ar bssid +Set the desired BSSID. +.It Fl bssid +Unset the desired BSSID. +The interface will automatically select a BSSID in this mode, which is +the default. +.It Cm chan Ar n +Set the channel (radio frequency) to be used by the driver based on +the given channel ID +.Ar n . +.It Fl chan +Unset the desired channel to be used by the driver. +The driver will automatically select a channel in this mode, which is +the default. +.It Cm media Ar media +The +.Nm +driver supports the following +.Ar media +types: .Pp +.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact +.It Cm autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +.It Cm DS1 +Set 802.11b DS 1Mbps operation. +.It Cm DS2 +Set 802.11b DS 2Mbps operation. +.It Cm DS5 +Set 802.11b DS 5.5Mbps operation. +.It Cm DS11 +Set 802.11b DS 11Mbps operation. +.El +.It Cm mediaopt Ar opts +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width monitor -compact +.It Cm hostap +Select Host AP operation. +.It Cm ibss +Select IBSS operation. +.It Cm monitor +Select monitor mode. +.El +.It Fl mediaopt Ar opts +Disable the specified media options on the driver and return it to the +default mode of operation (BSS). +.It Cm nwid Ar id +Set the network ID. +The +.Ar id +can either be any text string up to 32 characters in length, +or a series of hexadecimal digits up to 64 digits. +An empty +.Ar id +string allows the interface to connect to any available access points. +By default the +.Nm +driver uses an empty string. +Note that network ID is synonymous with Extended Service Set ID (ESSID). +.It Cm nwkey Ar key +Enable WEP encryption using the specified +.Ar key . +The +.Ar key +can either be a string, a series of hexadecimal digits (preceded by +.Sq 0x ) , +or a set of keys of the form +.Dq n:k1,k2,k3,k4 , +where +.Sq n +specifies which of the keys will be used for transmitted packets, +and the four keys, +.Dq k1 +through +.Dq k4 , +are configured as WEP keys. +If a set of keys is specified, a comma +.Pq Sq \&, +within the key must be escaped with a backslash. +Note that if multiple keys are used, their order must be the same within +the network. +.Nm +is capable of using both 40-bit (5 characters or 10 hexadecimal digits) +or 104-bit (13 characters or 26 hexadecimal digits) keys. +.It Fl nwkey +Disable WEP encryption. +This is the default mode of operation. +.It Cm nwkey persist +Enable WEP encryption with the persistent key stored in the network card. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES The following .Xr hostname.if 5 -example will set the channel to 11 and enable WEP before configuring -the interface as an IBSS peer: +example configures an0 to join whatever network is available on boot, +using WEP key +.Dq 0x1deadbeef1 , +channel 11, obtaining an IP address using DHCP: .Bd -literal -offset indent -!/sbin/ancontrol \e$if -c 11 -W 1 -k 0x1deadbeef1 -n my_net -o 0 -inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE +dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11 .Ed .Pp -Enable WEP: +Configure an0 for WEP, using hex key +.Dq 0x1deadbeef1 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig an0 nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 +.Ed .Pp -.Dl # ancontrol an0 -W 1 +Return an0 to its default settings: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig an0 -bssid -chan media autoselect \e + nwid "" -nwkey +.Ed +.Pp +Join an existing BSS network, +.Dq my_net : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig an0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net +.Ed .Sh DIAGNOSTICS .Bl -diag -.It "an%d: init failed" -The Aironet card failed to come ready after an initialization command was -issued. .It "an%d: failed to allocate %d bytes on NIC" The driver was unable to allocate memory for transmit frames in the NIC's on-board RAM. @@ -160,7 +263,6 @@ command. .Xr pci 4 , .Xr pcmcia 4 , .Xr hostname.if 5 , -.Xr ancontrol 8 , .Xr ifconfig 8 .Sh HISTORY The @@ -170,6 +272,10 @@ device driver first appeared in .Ox support was added in .Ox 2.7 . +A version of the driver based on the one in +.Nx +was added in +.Ox 3.9 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The @@ -180,7 +286,13 @@ and ported to .Ox by .An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org . +Later the +.Nx +version of the driver by +.An Atsushi Onoe +was subsequently ported to +.Ox +by +.An Jonathan Gray Aq jsg@openbsd.org . .Sh CAVEATS -.Nm -is not configurable with -.Xr ifconfig 8 . +Scanning for access points is not currently supported. |