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urtwRealtek RTL8187L/RTL8187B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device

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The urtw driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based on the Realtek RTL8187L and RTL8187B.

These are the modes the urtw driver can operate in:

BSS mode
Also known as mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through which all traffic passes. This mode is the default.
monitor mode
In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without associating with an access point. This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, or to scan for access points.

The urtw driver can be configured to use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK). WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks. It is strongly recommended that WEP not be used as the sole mechanism to secure wireless communication, due to serious weaknesses in it. The urtw driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for both encryption and decryption of data frames.

The urtw driver can be configured at runtime with ifconfig(8) or on boot with hostname.if(5).

The following adapters should work:

Alfa AWUS036H
 
ASUS P5B Deluxe
 
Belkin F5D7050E
 
Linksys WUSB54GC v2
 
Netgear WG111v2
 
Netgear WG111v3
 
Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20
 
Sitecom WL-168 v1
 
Sitecom WL-168 v4
 
Surecom EP-9001-g rev 2A
 
TRENDnet TEW-424UB V3.xR
 

The following hostname.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:

dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11

Configure urtw0 to join network “my_net” using WPA with passphrase “my_passphrase”:

# ifconfig urtw0 nwid my_net wpakey my_passphrase

Join an existing BSS network, “my_net”:

# ifconfig urtw0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net

arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), hostapd(8), ifconfig(8)

Realtek Semiconductor: http://www.realtek.com.tw/

The urtw device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5.

The urtw driver was written by Weongyo Jeong ⟨weongyo@FreeBSD.org⟩.

November 1, 2010 OpenBSD-5.2