Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 10:42:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r192193 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <200905161042.n4GAg05J056892@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: brueffer Date: Sat May 16 10:42:00 2009 New Revision: 192193 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/192193 Log: Add a manpage for the bwi(4) driver. Added: head/share/man/man4/bwi.4 (contents, props changed) Modified: head/share/man/man4/Makefile Modified: head/share/man/man4/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/Makefile Sat May 16 08:27:23 2009 (r192192) +++ head/share/man/man4/Makefile Sat May 16 10:42:00 2009 (r192193) @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ blackhole.4 \ bpf.4 \ bt.4 \ + bwi.4 \ cardbus.4 \ carp.4 \ ccd.4 \ @@ -465,6 +466,7 @@ MLINKS+=bce.4 if_bce.4 MLINKS+=bfe.4 if_bfe.4 MLINKS+=bge.4 if_bge.4 MLINKS+=bktr.4 brooktree.4 +MLINKS+=bwi.4 if_bwi.4 MLINKS+=crypto.4 cryptodev.4 MLINKS+=cue.4 if_cue.4 MLINKS+=dc.4 if_dc.4 Added: head/share/man/man4/bwi.4 ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/share/man/man4/bwi.4 Sat May 16 10:42:00 2009 (r192193) @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Christian Brueffer +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd May 16, 2009 +.Dt BWI 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm bwi +.Nd Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device bwi" +.Cd "device wlan" +.Cd "device wlan_amrr" +.Cd "device firmware" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +if_bwi_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for Broadcom BCM43xx based +PCI/CardBus network adapters. +.Pp +It supports +.Cm station +and +.Cm monitor +mode operation. +Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Pp +This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. +The +.Pa ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod +port needs to be installed before +.Xr ifconfig 8 +will work. +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including: +.Pp +.Bl -column -compact "Apple Airport Extreme" "BCM4306" "Mini PCI" "a/b/g" -offset 6n +.It Em "Card Chip Bus Standard" +.It "Apple Airport Extreme BCM4306 PCI b/g" +.It "Apple Airport Extreme BCM4318 PCI b/g" +.It "ASUS WL-138g BCM4318 PCI b/g" +.It "Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S BCM4318 CardBus b/g" +.It "Buffalo WLI-PCI-G54S BCM4306 PCI b/g" +.It "Compaq R4035 onboard BCM4306 PCI b/g" +.It "Dell Wireless 1470 BCM4318 Mini PCI b/g" +.It "Dell Truemobile 1400 BCM4309 Mini PCI b/g" +.It "HP nx6125 BCM4319 PCI b/g" +.It "Linksys WPC54G Ver 3 BCM4318 CardBus b/g" +.It "Linksys WPC54GS Ver 2 BCM4318 CardBus b/g" +.It "TRENDnet TEW-401PCplus BCM4306 CardBus b/g" +.It "US Robotics 5411 BCM4318 CardBus b/g" +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): +.Pp +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwi0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e + netmask 0xffffff00 +.Ed +.Pp +Join a specific BSS network with network name +.Dq Li my_net : +.Pp +.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwi0 ssid my_net up" +.Pp +Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwi0 ssid my_net \e + wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr cardbus 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr wlan 4 , +.Xr wlan_amrr 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 8.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written for DragonFly BSD by +.An Sepherosa Ziehau +and subsequently ported to +.Fx . +.Sh BUGS +Some card based on the BCM4306 and BCM4309 chips do not work properly +on channel 1, 2 and 3.
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