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URTW(4)                      Device Drivers Manual                     URTW(4)

NAME
     urtw - Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device

SYNOPSIS
     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
     configuring 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

     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 and NetBSD 6.0.

AUTHORS
     The urtw driver was written by Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>.

NetBSD 10.99                   January 12, 2015                   NetBSD 10.99