bwi.4freebsd

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Version: 361871 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

Section: 4 (Pilotes et protocoles réseau)


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NAME

bwi - Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device bwi device wlan device wlan_amrr device firmware

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf5:

 if_bwi_load="YES"
 

DESCRIPTION

The driver provides support for Broadcom BCM43xx based PCI/CardBus network adapters.

It 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).

This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. The ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod port needs to be installed before ifconfig(8) will work.

HARDWARE

The driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including:
Card  Chip    Bus     Standard
"Apple Airport Extreme     BCM4306 PCI     b/g"
"Apple Airport ExtremeBCM4318PCIb/g"
"ASUS WL-138gBCM4318PCIb/g"
"Buffalo WLI-CB-G54SBCM4318CardBusb/g"
"Buffalo WLI-PCI-G54SBCM4306PCIb/g"
"Compaq R4035 onboardBCM4306PCIb/g"
"Dell Wireless 1470BCM4318Mini PCIb/g"
"Dell Truemobile 1400BCM4309Mini PCIb/g"
"HP nx6125BCM4319PCIb/g"
"Linksys WPC54G Ver 3BCM4318CardBusb/g"
"Linksys WPC54GS Ver 2BCM4318CardBusb/g"
"TRENDnet TEW-401PCplusBCM4306CardBusb/g"
"US Robotics 5411BCM4318CardBusb/g"

EXAMPLES

Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
 ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwi0 inet 192.168.0.20 \
     netmask 0xffffff00
 

Join a specific BSS network with network name ``my_net ''

"ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwi0 ssid my_net up"

Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:

 ifconfig wlan create wlandev bwi0 ssid my_net \
         wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
 

SEE ALSO

arp(4), cardbus(4), intro(4), pci(4), wlan(4), wlan_amrr4, ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant8

HISTORY

The driver first appeared in Fx 8.0 .

AUTHORS

An -nosplit The driver was written for DragonFly BSD by An Sepherosa Ziehau and subsequently ported to Fx .

BUGS

Some card based on the BCM4306 and BCM4309 chips do not work properly on channel 1, 2 and 3.