upgt(4) [netbsd man page]
UPGT(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual UPGT(4) NAME
upgt -- Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device SYNOPSIS
upgt* at uhub? port ? DESCRIPTION
The upgt driver supports the USB 2.0 Conexant/Intersil PrismGT series wireless adapters based on the GW3887 chipset. These are the modes the upgt driver can operate in: BSS mode Also known as infrastructure mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through which all traffic passes. This mode is the default. monitor mode In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without associating with an access point. This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, or to scan for access points. The upgt 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. The upgt driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for both encryption and decryption of data frames. The upgt driver can be configured at runtime with ifconfig(8) or on boot with ifconfig.if(5). FILES
The driver needs a firmware file which is loaded when an interface is brought up: /libdata/firmware/upgt/upgt-gw3887 Currently these firmware files can not be included in NetBSD base system. Please download these files and put them into the above firmware directory. A tar archive file that includes upgt-gw3887 firmware can be found at: http://www.nazgul.ch/upgt/upgt-firmware-1.1.tar.gz HARDWARE
The following adapters should work: Belkin F5D7050 (version 1000) Cohiba Proto Board D-Link DWL-G120 Cohiba D-Link DWL-G122 rev A2 FSC Connect2Air E-5400 USB D1700 Gigaset USB Adapter 54 Inventel UR045G IOGear GWU513 Linksys WUSB54AG Linksys WUSB54G ver 2 Medion MD40900 Philips CPWUA054 SMC EZ ConnectG SMC2862W-G Sagem XG703A Spinnaker DUT Spinnaker Proto Board Thomson SpeedTouch 121g Willcom / Sharp WS003SH/WS004SH smart phone internal wireless LAN EXAMPLES
The following ifconfig.if(5) example configures upgt0 to join whatever network is available on boot, using WEP key ``0x1deadbeef1'', channel 11, obtaining an IP address using dhcpcd(8): ssid 'my network' nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11 dhcp Join an existing BSS network, ``my_net'': # ifconfig upgt0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net SEE ALSO
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig.if(5), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The upgt driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.3. It was ported to NetBSD by FUKAUMI Naoki and first appeared in NetBSD 6.0. AUTHORS
The upgt driver was written by Marcus Glocker <mglocker@openbsd.org>. The hardware specification was reverse engineered by the people at http://www.prism54.org/. BUGS
The upgt driver just supports the USB 2.0 devices (GW3887 chipset) but not the USB 1.0 devices containing the NET2280, ISL3880, and ISL3886 chipsets. Some further efforts would be necessary to add USB 1.0 support to the driver. BSD
July 4, 2010 BSD
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UPGT(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual UPGT(4) NAME
upgt -- Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device ehci device uhci device ohci device usb device upgt device wlan Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): if_upgt_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The upgt driver supports the USB 2.0 Conexant/Intersil PrismGT series wireless adapters based on the GW3887 chipset. These are the modes the upgt driver can operate in: BSS mode Also known as infrastructure mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through which all traffic passes. This mode is the default. monitor mode In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without associating with an access point. This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, or to scan for access points. upgt supports software WEP. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks. It can be typically configured in one of three modes: no encryption; 40-bit encryption; or 104-bit encryption. Unfortunately, due to serious weaknesses in WEP protocol it is strongly recommended that it not be used as the sole mechanism to secure wireless communication. WEP is not enabled by default. The upgt driver can be configured at runtime with ifconfig(8). FILES
This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of the firmware which can be installed via pkg_add(1) is available: http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz HARDWARE
The upgt driver supports USB 2.0 Conexant/Intersil PrismGT series wireless adapters based on the GW3887 chipset, among them: o Belkin F5D7050 (version 1000) o Cohiba Proto Board o D-Link DWL-G120 Cohiba o FSC Connect2Air E-5400 USB D1700 o Gigaset USB Adapter 54 o Inventel UR045G o SMC EZ ConnectG SMC2862W-G o Sagem XG703A o Spinnaker DUT o Spinnaker Proto Board EXAMPLES
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): ifconfig wlan create wlandev upgt0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 Join a specific BSS network with network name ``my_net'': ifconfig wlan create wlandev upgt0 ssid my_net up Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: ifconfig wlan create wlandev upgt0 ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up SEE ALSO
arp(4), netintro(4), usb(4), wlan(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The upgt driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.3. AUTHORS
The upgt driver was written by Marcus Glocker <mglocker@openbsd.org>. The hardware specification was reverse engineered by the people at http://www.prism54.org. CAVEATS
The upgt driver just supports the USB 2.0 devices (GW3887 chipset) but not the USB 1.0 devices containing the NET2280, ISL3880, and ISL3886 chipsets. Some further efforts would be necessary to add USB 1.0 support to the driver. BSD
April 17, 2008 BSD