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28.Dd January 12, 2015
29.Dt URTW 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm urtw
33.Nd Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "urtw* at uhub? port ?"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based on the
40Realtek RTL8187B/L.
41.Pp
42.Nm
43supports
44.Cm station
45and
46.Cm monitor
47mode operation.
48Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
49For more information on configuring this device, see
50.Xr ifconfig 8 .
51.Sh HARDWARE
52The
53.Nm
54driver supports Realtek RTL8187B/L based wireless network devices, including:
55.Pp
56.Bl -column "Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20" "RTL8225" "USB" -compact -offset 6n
57.It Em "Card" Ta Em "Radio" Ta Em "Bus"
58.It "Belkin F5D7050E" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
59.It "Linksys WUSB54GCv2" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
60.It "Netgear WG111v2" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
61.It "Netgear WG111v3" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
62.It "Safehome WLG-1500SMA5" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
63.It "Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
64.It "Sitecom WL168v1" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
65.It "Sitecom WL168v4" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
66.It "SureCom EP-9001-g(2A)" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
67.It "TRENDnet TEW-424UB V3.xR" Ta "RTL8225" Ta "USB"
68.El
69.Sh EXAMPLES
70.Xr ifconfig.if 5
71example configures urtw0 to join whatever network is available on boot,
72using WEP key
73.Dq 0x1deadbeef1 ,
74channel 11, obtaining an IP address using DHCP:
75.Bd -literal -offset indent
76nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11
77dhcp
78.Ed
79.Pp
80Join an existing BSS network,
81.Dq my_net :
82.Bd -literal -offset indent
83# ifconfig urtw0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net
84.Ed
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr arp 4 ,
87.Xr netintro 4 ,
88.Xr usb 4 ,
89.Xr ifconfig.if 5 ,
90.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 ,
91.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
92.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
93.Lk http://www.realtek.com.tw Realtek
94.Sh HISTORY
95The
96.Nm
97device driver first appeared in
98.Fx 8.0
99and
100.Nx 6.0 .
101.Sh AUTHORS
102.An -nosplit
103The
104.Nm
105driver was written by
106.An Weongyo Jeong
107.Aq weongyo@FreeBSD.org .
108