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diff --git a/share/man/man4/urtw.4 b/share/man/man4/urtw.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c0d2a9878f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/urtw.4 @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: urtw.4,v 1.1 2008/11/27 14:08:07 kevlo Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Weongyo Jeong +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 27 2008 $ +.Os +.Dt URTW 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm urtw +.Nd Realtek RTL8187L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "urtw* at uhub? port ?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based on the +Realtek RTL8187L. +.Pp +These are the modes the +.Nm +driver can operate in: +.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX" +.It BSS mode +Also known as +.Em infrastructure +mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through +which all traffic passes. +This mode is the default. +.It IBSS mode +Also known as +.Em IEEE ad-hoc +mode or +.Em peer-to-peer +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 +The +.Nm +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. +The +.Nm +driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for both encryption and decryption +of data frames. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +or on boot with +.Xr hostname.if 5 . +.Sh HARDWARE +The following adapters should work: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It Netgear WG111v2 +.It Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20 +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example configures urtw0 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 +dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11 +.Ed +.Pp +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example creates a host-based access point on boot: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect \e + mediaopt hostap nwid my_net chan 11 +.Ed +.Pp +Configure urtw0 to join network +.Dq my_net +using WPA-PSK with passphrase +.Dq my_passphrase : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig urtw0 nwid my_net wpa wpapsk \e + $(wpa-psk my_net my_passphrase) +.Ed +.Pp +Return urtw0 to its default settings: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig urtw0 -bssid -chan media autoselect \e + nwid "" -nwkey -wpa -wpapsk +.Ed +.Pp +Join an existing BSS network, +.Dq my_net : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig urtw0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr usb 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr hostapd 8 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr wpa-psk 8 +.Pp +RealTek Semiconductor: +.Pa http://www.realtek.com.tw/ +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Ox 4.5 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Weongyo Jeong Aq weongyo@FreeBSD.org . |