1.\" $OpenBSD: upgt.4,v 1.24 2015/09/10 15:16:43 schwarze Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Marcus Glocker <mglocker@openbsd.org> 4.\" Copyright (c) 2005-2007 5.\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr> 6.\" 7.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 8.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 9.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 10.\" 11.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 12.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 13.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 42.\" COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 43.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 44.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 45.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED 46.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, 47.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT 48.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 49.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 50.\" 51.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2015 $ 52.Dt UPGT 4 53.Os 54.Sh NAME 55.Nm upgt 56.Nd Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device 57.Sh SYNOPSIS 58.Cd "upgt* at uhub? port ?" 59.Sh DESCRIPTION 60The 61.Nm 62driver supports the USB 2.0 Conexant/Intersil PrismGT series wireless 63adapters based on the GW3887 chipset. 64.Pp 65These are the modes the 66.Nm 67driver can operate in: 68.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX" 69.It BSS mode 70Also known as 71.Em infrastructure 72mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through 73which all traffic passes. 74This mode is the default. 75.It monitor mode 76In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without 77associating with an access point. 78This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to 79capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, 80or to scan for access points. 81.El 82.Pp 83The 84.Nm 85driver can be configured to use 86Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or 87Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK). 88WPA is the current encryption standard for wireless networks. 89It is strongly recommended that WEP 90not be used as the sole mechanism 91to secure wireless communication, 92due to serious weaknesses in it. 93The 94.Nm 95driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for both encryption and decryption 96of data frames. 97.Pp 98The 99.Nm 100driver can be configured at runtime with 101.Xr ifconfig 8 102or on boot with 103.Xr hostname.if 5 . 104.Sh FILES 105The driver needs a firmware file which is loaded when an interface is 106brought up: 107.Pp 108.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 109.It Pa /etc/firmware/upgt-gw3887 110.El 111.\".Pp 112.\"These firmware files are not free because Conexant/Intersil refuses 113.\"to grant distribution rights. 114.\"As a result, even though 115.\".Ox 116.\"includes the driver, the firmware files cannot be included and 117.\"users have to download these files on their own. 118.Pp 119A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using 120.Xr fw_update 1 . 121.Sh HARDWARE 122The following adapters should work: 123.Pp 124.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 125.It Belkin F5D7050 (version 1000) 126.It Cohiba Proto Board 127.It D-Link DWL-G120 Cohiba 128.It D-Link DWL-G122 rev A2 129.It FSC Connect2Air E-5400 USB D1700 130.It Gigaset USB Adapter 54 131.It Inventel UR045G 132.It IOGear GWU513 133.It Linksys WUSB54AG 134.It Linksys WUSB54G ver 2 135.It Medion MD40900 136.It Philips CPWUA054 137.It SMC EZ ConnectG SMC2862W-G 138.It Sagem XG703A 139.It Spinnaker DUT 140.It Spinnaker Proto Board 141.It Thomson SpeedTouch 121g 142.El 143.Sh EXAMPLES 144The following example scans for available networks: 145.Pp 146.Dl # ifconfig upgt0 scan 147.Pp 148The following 149.Xr hostname.if 5 150example configures upgt0 to join network 151.Dq mynwid , 152using WPA key 153.Dq mywpakey , 154obtaining an IP address using DHCP: 155.Bd -literal -offset indent 156nwid mynwid 157wpakey mywpakey 158dhcp 159.Ed 160.Sh SEE ALSO 161.Xr arp 4 , 162.Xr ifmedia 4 , 163.Xr intro 4 , 164.Xr netintro 4 , 165.Xr usb 4 , 166.Xr hostname.if 5 , 167.\".Xr hostapd 8 , 168.Xr ifconfig 8 169.Sh HISTORY 170The 171.Nm 172driver first appeared in 173.Ox 4.3 . 174.Sh AUTHORS 175.An -nosplit 176The 177.Nm 178driver was written by 179.An Marcus Glocker Aq Mt mglocker@openbsd.org . 180.Pp 181The hardware specification was reverse engineered by the people at 182.Lk http://www.prism54.org . 183.Sh CAVEATS 184The 185.Nm 186driver just supports the USB 2.0 devices (GW3887 chipset) but not the 187USB 1.0 devices containing the NET2280, ISL3880, and ISL3886 chipsets. 188Some further efforts would be necessary to add USB 1.0 support to the 189driver. 190