BWFM(4) | Device Drivers Manual | BWFM(4) |
bwfm
— Broadcom
and Cypress IEEE 802.11a/ac/b/g/n wireless network device
bwfm* at pci?
bwfm* at sdmmc?
bwfm* at usb?
The bwfm
driver provides support for
Broadcom and Cypress FullMAC network adapters.
These are the modes the bwfm
driver can
operate in:
The bwfm
driver can be configured to use
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and
WPA2-PSK). WPA is the current 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
bwfm
driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for
the WPA handshake. Both encryption and decryption of data frames are handled
by the firmware.
The firmware automatically selects the transmit speed and the channel depending on the received signal strength.
The bwfm
driver can be configured at
runtime with ifconfig(8) or
on boot with
hostname.if(5).
The driver needs a firmware file which is loaded when the driver attaches. A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using fw_update(1).
The following example scans for available networks:
# ifconfig bwfm0 scan
The following hostname.if(5) example configures bwfm0 to join network “mynwid”, using WPA key “mywpakey”, obtaining an IP address using DHCP:
nwid mynwid wpakey mywpakey dhcp
The following hostname.if(5) example creates a host-based access point on boot:
mediaopt hostap nwid mynwid wpakey mywpakey inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
The bwfm
driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 6.3.
The bwfm
driver was written by
Patrick Wildt
<patrick@blueri.se>.
The firmware is outdated and contains known vulnerabilities.
July 15, 2018 | OpenBSD-6.4 |