urtw
—
Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network
device
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 configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8).
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 |
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
Join an existing BSS network, “my_net”:
# ifconfig urtw0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net
The urtw
device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 8.0 and NetBSD 6.0.
The urtw
driver was written by Weongyo
Jeong ⟨weongyo@FreeBSD.org⟩.