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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd October 17, 2009
28.Dt URTW 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm urtw
32.Nd Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
36.Bd -ragged -offset indent
37.Cd "device ehci"
38.Cd "device uhci"
39.Cd "device ohci"
40.Cd "device usb"
41.Cd "device urtw"
42.Cd "device wlan"
43.Ed
44.Pp
45Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time,
46place the following line in
47.Xr loader.conf 5 :
48.Bd -literal -offset indent
49if_urtw_load="YES"
50.Ed
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Nm
54driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based on the
55Realtek RTL8187B/L.
56.Pp
57.Nm
58supports
59.Cm station
60and
61.Cm monitor
62mode operation.
63Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
64For more information on configuring this device, see
65.Xr ifconfig 8 .
66.Sh HARDWARE
67The
68.Nm
69driver supports Realtek RTL8187B/L based wireless network devices, including:
70.Pp
71.Bl -column "Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20" "RTL8225" "USB" -compact -offset 6n
72.It Em "Card	Radio	Bus"
73.It "Belkin F5D7050E	RTL8225	USB"
74.It "Linksys WUSB54GCv2	RTL8225	USB"
75.It "Netgear WG111v2	RTL8225	USB"
76.It "Netgear WG111v3	RTL8225	USB"
77.It "Safehome WLG-1500SMA5	RTL8225	USB"
78.It "Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20	RTL8225	USB"
79.It "Sitecom WL168v1	RTL8225	USB"
80.It "Sitecom WL168v4	RTL8225	USB"
81.It "SureCom EP-9001-g(2A)	RTL8225	USB"
82.It "TRENDnet TEW-424UB V3.xR	RTL8225	USB"
83.El
84.Sh EXAMPLES
85Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
86.Bd -literal -offset indent
87ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
88    netmask 0xffffff00
89.Ed
90.Pp
91Join a specific BSS network with network name
92.Dq Li my_net :
93.Pp
94.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 ssid my_net up"
95.Pp
96Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
97.Bd -literal -offset indent
98ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 ssid my_net \e
99	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
100.Ed
101.Sh SEE ALSO
102.Xr intro 4 ,
103.Xr netintro 4 ,
104.Xr usb 4 ,
105.Xr wlan 4 ,
106.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 ,
107.Xr wlan_tkip 4 ,
108.Xr wlan_wep 4 ,
109.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
110.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
111.Rs
112.%T Realtek
113.%U http://www.realtek.com.tw
114.Re
115.Sh HISTORY
116The
117.Nm
118device driver first appeared in
119.Fx 8.0 .
120.Sh AUTHORS
121.An -nosplit
122The
123.Nm
124driver was written by
125.An Weongyo Jeong
126.Aq weongyo@FreeBSD.org .
127