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Operating Systems BSD OpenBSD and wireless Post 302152577 by NelTu on Thursday 20th of December 2007 10:57:21 AM
Old 12-20-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Timmy66
I've just installed OpenBSD on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T42) and since this is my first time with wireless networking in OpenBSD I'm a bit lost.

What I would like to do is connect to a wireless network using WEP or WPA. Where do I place the key and essid?
A man page like ifconfig's tells you all sorts of things. There is no WPA available on OpenBSD at this point, it's half-implmented, wpa_supplicant is in the ports tree, but only works on wired connections.

The OpenBSD Reference may help you if you cannot read man pages, but really, if you're not reading man pages, you should really be running something else.
 

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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: 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 config- uring 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 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 SEE ALSO
arp(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig.if(5), wpa_supplicant.conf(5), 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
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