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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