From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Sat Sep 26 07:09:48 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F83A09B16; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 07:09:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BF97FD5; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 07:09:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id t8Q79lY1007893; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 07:09:47 GMT (envelope-from adrian@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id t8Q79l84007890; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 07:09:47 GMT (envelope-from adrian@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201509260709.t8Q79l84007890@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: adrian set sender to adrian@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Adrian Chadd Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 07:09:47 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r288254 - head/share/man/man4 X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 07:09:48 -0000 Author: adrian Date: Sat Sep 26 07:09:46 2015 New Revision: 288254 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/288254 Log: Add man pages for the AR9170 and AR9170 firmware. Added: head/share/man/man4/otus.4 (contents, props changed) head/share/man/man4/otusfw.4 (contents, props changed) Modified: head/share/man/man4/Makefile Modified: head/share/man/man4/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/Makefile Sat Sep 26 07:08:35 2015 (r288253) +++ head/share/man/man4/Makefile Sat Sep 26 07:09:46 2015 (r288254) @@ -379,6 +379,8 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ oce.4 \ ohci.4 \ orm.4 \ + otus.4 \ + otusfw.4 \ ow.4 \ ow_temp.4 \ owc.4 \ Added: head/share/man/man4/otus.4 ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/share/man/man4/otus.4 Sat Sep 26 07:09:46 2015 (r288254) @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Adrian Chadd +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd September 25, 2015 +.Dt OTUS 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm otus +.Nd Atheros AR9170 USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device ehci" +.Cd "device uhci" +.Cd "device ohci" +.Cd "device usb" +.Cd "device otus" +.Cd "device wlan" +.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_otus_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports USB 2.0 wireless network devices based on the Atheros +AR9170 chipset. +.Pp +The Atheros AR9170 is a draft-802.11n adapter that uses an external +radio to operate in either 2.4GHz only or 2.4GHz and 5GHz. +.Pp +The AR9101 radio supports 1T1R operation in 2GHz only. +.Pp +The AR9102 radio supports 2T2R operation in 2GHz only. +.Pp +The AR9104 radio supports 2T2R operation both 2GHz and 5GHz. +.Pp +These are the modes the +.Nm +driver can operate in: +.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX" +.It BSS mode +Also known as +.Em infrastructure +mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through +which all traffic passes. +This mode is the default. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured to use +Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or +Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK). +WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks. +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh FILES +The driver needs at least version 1.0 of the following firmware files, +which is loaded when an interface is attached: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It Pa /boot/kernel/otusfw-init.ko +.It Pa /boot/kernel/otusfw-main.ko +.El +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver provices support for Atheros AR9170 USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n +wireless network adapters, including: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It 3Com 3CRUSBN275 +.It Arcadyan WN7512 +.\" .It AVM FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N +.It CACE AirPcap \&Nx +.It D-Link DWA-130 rev \&D1 +.It D-Link DWA-160 rev A1 +.It D-Link DWA-160 rev A2 +.It IO-Data WN-GDN/US2 +.It NEC Aterm WL300NU-G +.It Netgear WNDA3100 +.It Netgear WN111 v2 +.It Planex GW-US300 +.It SMC Networks SMCWUSB-N2 +.It TP-Link TL-WN821N v1, v2 +.It Ubiquiti SR71 USB +.It Unex DNUA-81 +.It Z-Com UB81 +.It Z-Com UB82 +.It ZyXEL NWD-271N +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ifconfig wlan create wlandev otus0 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 otus0 ssid my_net up" +.Pp +Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ifconfig wlan create wlandev otus0 ssid my_net \e + wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up +.Ed +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "%s: failed load firmware of file otusfw-main" +For some reason, the driver was unable to read the microcode file from the +filesystem. +The file might be missing or corrupted. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 1 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr otusfw 4 , +.Xr usb 4 , +.Xr wlan 4 , +.Xr arp 8 , +.Xr hostapd 8 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 4.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien@openbsd.org +and ported by +.An Adrian Chadd Aq Mt adrian@freebsd.org . +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Nm +driver only supports 802.11a/b/g operations. +802.11 operation is not supported at this time. Added: head/share/man/man4/otusfw.4 ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/share/man/man4/otusfw.4 Sat Sep 26 07:09:46 2015 (r288254) @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Adrian Chadd +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd September 25, 2015 +.Dt OTUS 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm otus +.Nd Atheros AR9170 USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device ehci" +.Cd "device uhci" +.Cd "device ohci" +.Cd "device usb" +.Cd "device otus" +.Cd "device wlan" +.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_otus_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports USB 2.0 wireless network devices based on the Atheros +AR9170 chipset. +.Pp +The Atheros AR9170 is a draft-802.11n adapter that uses an external +radio to operate in either 2.4GHz only or 2.4GHz and 5GHz. +.Pp +The AR9101 radio supports 1T1R operation in 2GHz only. +.Pp +The AR9102 radio supports 2T2R operation in 2GHz only. +.Pp +The AR9104 radio supports 2T2R operation both 2GHz and 5GHz. +.Pp +These are the modes the +.Nm +driver can operate in: +.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX" +.It BSS mode +Also known as +.Em infrastructure +mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through +which all traffic passes. +This mode is the default. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured to use +Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or +Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK). +WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks. +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh FILES +The driver needs at least version 1.0 of the following firmware files, +which is loaded when an interface is attached: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It Pa /boot/kernel/otusfw-init.ko +.It Pa /boot/kernel/otusfw-main.ko +.El +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver provices support for Atheros AR9170 USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n +wireless network adapters, including: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It 3Com 3CRUSBN275 +.It Arcadyan WN7512 +.\" .It AVM FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N +.It CACE AirPcap \&Nx +.It D-Link DWA-130 rev \&D1 +.It D-Link DWA-160 rev A1 +.It D-Link DWA-160 rev A2 +.It IO-Data WN-GDN/US2 +.It NEC Aterm WL300NU-G +.It Netgear WNDA3100 +.It Netgear WN111 v2 +.It Planex GW-US300 +.It SMC Networks SMCWUSB-N2 +.It TP-Link TL-WN821N v1, v2 +.It Ubiquiti SR71 USB +.It Unex DNUA-81 +.It Z-Com UB81 +.It Z-Com UB82 +.It ZyXEL NWD-271N +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ifconfig wlan create wlandev otus0 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 otus0 ssid my_net up" +.Pp +Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ifconfig wlan create wlandev otus0 ssid my_net \e + wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up +.Ed +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "%s: failed load firmware of file otusfw-main" +For some reason, the driver was unable to read the microcode file from the +filesystem. +The file might be missing or corrupted. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 1 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr otusfw 4 , +.Xr usb 4 , +.Xr wlan 4 , +.Xr arp 8 , +.Xr hostapd 8 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 4.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien@openbsd.org +and ported by +.An Adrian Chadd Aq Mt adrian@freebsd.org . +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Nm +driver only supports 802.11a/b/g operations. +802.11 operation is not supported at this time.