1.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Michael Knudsen <mk@openbsd.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 8.\" - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above 11.\" copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following 12.\" disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided 13.\" with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 16.\" "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 17.\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS 18.\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 19.\" COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 20.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 21.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 22.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER 23.\" CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN 25.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 26.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $OpenBSD: urndis.4,v 1.15 2013/07/16 16:05:49 schwarze Exp $ 29.\" 30.Dd November 24, 2015 31.Dt URNDIS 4 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm urndis 35.Nd USB Remote NDIS Ethernet device 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37To compile this driver into the kernel, 38place the following lines in your 39kernel configuration file: 40.Bd -ragged -offset indent 41.Cd "device ehci" 42.Cd "device uhci" 43.Cd "device ohci" 44.Cd "device xhci" 45.Cd "device usb" 46.Cd "device miibus" 47.Cd "device uether" 48.Cd "device urndis" 49.Ed 50.Pp 51Alternatively, to load the driver as a 52module at boot time, place the following line in 53.Xr loader.conf 5 : 54.Bd -literal -offset indent 55if_urndis_load="YES" 56.Ed 57.Sh DESCRIPTION 58The 59.Nm 60driver provides Ethernet access over Remote NDIS (RNDIS), 61allowing mobile devices such as phones and tablets to provide network access. 62It is often referred to as USB tethering, 63and in most cases must be explicitly enabled on the device. 64.Pp 65.Nm 66should work with any USB RNDIS devices, 67such as those commonly found on Android devices. 68It does not support different media types or options. 69For more information on configuring this device, see 70.Xr ifconfig 8 . 71.Sh HARDWARE 72The 73.Nm 74driver supports the 75.Qq tethering 76functionality of many Android devices. 77.Sh SEE ALSO 78.Xr arp 4 , 79.Xr cdce 4 , 80.Xr cdceem 4 , 81.Xr ipheth 4 , 82.Xr netintro 4 , 83.Xr usb 4 , 84.Xr ifconfig 8 85.Sh HISTORY 86The 87.Nm 88device driver first appeared in 89.Ox 4.7 . 90The first 91.Fx 92release to include it was 93.Fx 9.3 . 94.Sh AUTHORS 95.An -nosplit 96The 97.Nm 98driver was written by 99.An Jonathan Armani Aq Mt armani@openbsd.org , 100.An Michael Knudsen Aq Mt mk@openbsd.org , 101and 102.An Fabien Romano Aq Mt fabien@openbsd.org . 103It was ported to 104.Fx 105by 106.An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hps@FreeBSD.org . 107