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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/pgt.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/pgt.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/pgt.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98ce10de --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/pgt.4 @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: pgt.4,v 1.47 2022/01/05 17:39:25 jmc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Theo de Raadt. +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 The DragonFly Project. 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. +.\" 3. Neither the name of The DragonFly Project nor the names of its +.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived +.\" from this software without specific, prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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 +.\" COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 5 2022 $ +.Dt PGT 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm pgt +.Nd Conexant/Intersil Prism GT Full-MAC IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "pgt* at cardbus?" +.Cd "pgt* at pci?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for Conexant/Intersil GT-series devices +which can support the Full-MAC firmware, using the ISL3877, +ISL3880, and ISL3890 chips. +The +.Nm +driver will not (yet) work on similar devices using the ISL3886 or +similar chips which use the Soft-MAC firmware. +.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. +.It IBSS mode +Also known as +.Em IEEE ad-hoc +mode or +.Em peer-to-peer +mode. +This is the standardized method of operating without an access point. +Stations associate with a service set. +However, actual connections between stations are peer-to-peer. +.It Host AP +In this mode the driver acts as an access point (base station) +for other cards. +.It 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. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured to use hardware +Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. +.Pp +In BSS mode, +the driver supports powersave mode, +which can be enabled via +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +or on boot with +.Xr hostname.if 5 . +.Sh FILES +The driver needs a set of firmware files which are loaded when +an interface is brought up: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It Pa /etc/firmware/pgt-isl3877 +.It Pa /etc/firmware/pgt-isl3890 +.El +.Pp +These firmware files are not free because Conexant refuses +to grant distribution rights. +In fact they have rebuffed thousands +of attempts to start a dialogue on this issue. +As a result, even though +.Ox +includes the driver, the firmware files cannot be included and +users have to download these files on their own. +.Pp +A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using +.Xr fw_update 8 . +.Sh HARDWARE +The following cards are among those supported by the +.Nm +driver: +.Bl -column "NETGEAR WG511 (Taiwanese, not Chinese)" "ISL3880" "CardBus" -offset 6n +.It Em Card Ta Em Chip Ta Em Bus +.It "3COM 3CRWE154G72" Ta ISL3880 Ta CardBus +.It "D-Link DWL-g650 A1" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "I-O Data WN-G54/CB" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "I4 Z-Com XG-600" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "I4 Z-Com XG-900" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "Intersil PRISM Indigo" Ta ISL3877 Ta PCI +.It "Intersil PRISM Duette" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "NETGEAR WG511 (Taiwanese, not Chinese)" Ta ISL3890 Ta CardBus +.It "PLANEX GW-DS54G" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "SMC EZ Connect g 2.4GHz SMC2802W" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "SMC EZ Connect g 2.4GHz SMC2835W-v2" Ta ISL3890 Ta CardBus +.It "SMC 2802Wv2" Ta ISL3890 Ta PCI +.It "Soyo Aerielink" Ta ISL3890 Ta CardBus +.It "ZyXEL ZyAIR G-100" Ta ISL3890 Ta CardBus +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following example scans for available networks: +.Pp +.Dl # ifconfig pgt0 scan +.Pp +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example configures pgt0 to join network +.Dq mynwid , +using WEP key +.Dq mywepkey , +obtaining an IP address using DHCP: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +nwid mynwid nwkey mywepkey +inet autoconf +.Ed +.Pp +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example creates a host-based access point on boot: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +mediaopt hostap +nwid mynwid nwkey mywepkey +inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr cardbus 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr hostapd 8 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 4.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was originally written for +.Fx +by +.An Brian Fundakowski , +and then rewritten for +.Ox +by +.An Marcus Glocker +and +.An Claudio Jeker . +.Sh CAVEATS +Host AP mode doesn't support power saving. +Clients attempting to use power saving mode may experience significant +packet loss (disabling power saving on the client will fix this). |
