NAME
urtw —
Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE
802.11b/g wireless network device
SYNOPSIS
urtw* at uhub? port ?
DESCRIPTION
The
urtw driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based
on the Realtek RTL8187B/L.
urtw supports
station and
monitor mode operation. Only one virtual interface may be
configured at any time. For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
The
urtw driver supports Realtek RTL8187B/L based wireless
network devices, including:
Card |
Radio |
Bus |
Belkin F5D7050E |
RTL8225 |
USB |
Linksys WUSB54GCv2 |
RTL8225 |
USB |
Netgear WG111v2 |
RTL8225 |
USB |
Netgear WG111v3 |
RTL8225 |
USB |
Safehome WLG-1500SMA5 |
RTL8225 |
USB |
Shuttle XPC Accessory
PN20 |
RTL8225 |
USB |
Sitecom WL168v1 |
RTL8225 |
USB |
Sitecom WL168v4 |
RTL8225 |
USB |
SureCom EP-9001-g(2A) |
RTL8225 |
USB |
TRENDnet TEW-424UB
V3.xR |
RTL8225 |
USB |
EXAMPLES
ifconfig.if(5) example
configures urtw0 to join whatever network is available on boot, using WEP key
“0x1deadbeef1”, channel 11, obtaining an IP address using DHCP:
nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11
dhcp
Join an existing BSS network, “my_net”:
# ifconfig urtw0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
netintro(4),
usb(4),
ifconfig.if(5),
wpa_supplicant.conf(5),
ifconfig(8),
wpa_supplicant(8)
Realtek
HISTORY
The
urtw device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 8.0 and
NetBSD 6.0.
AUTHORS
The
urtw driver was written by
Weongyo
Jeong ⟨weongyo@FreeBSD.org⟩.