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URTW(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual URTW(4) NAME urtw -- Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device ehci device uhci device ohci device usb device urtw device wlan Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): if_urtw_load="YES" DESCRIPTION The urtw driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based on the Re- altek RTL8187B/L. urtw supports station and monitor mode operation. Only one virtual in- terface may be configured at any time. For more information on configur- ing this device, see ifconfig(8). HARDWARE The urtw driver supports Realtek RTL8187B/L based wireless network de- vices, including: Card Radio Bus Netgear WG111v2 RTL8225 USB Safehome WLG-1500SMA5 RTL8225 USB Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20 RTL8225 USB EXAMPLES Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 inet 192.168.0.20 \ netmask 0xffffff00 Join a specific BSS network with network name "my_net": ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 ssid my_net up Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 ssid my_net \ wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up SEE ALSO intro(4), netintro(4), usb(4), wlan(4), wlan_ccmp(4), wlan_tkip(4), wlan_wep(4), ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant(8) Realtek, http://www.realtek.com.tw. HISTORY The urtw device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0. AUTHORS The urtw driver was written by Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>. BSD July 25, 2009 BSD
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