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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/mtw.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/mtw.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..83d83fb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/mtw.4 @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: mtw.4,v 1.4 2025/03/27 15:12:14 jmc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2021 James Hastings <hastings@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr> +.\" +.\" 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 $Mdocdate: March 27 2025 $ +.Dt MTW 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mtw +.Nd MediaTek USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "mtw* at uhub? port ?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the MediaTek +MT7601U chipset. +.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 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 +Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or +Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA1 and WPA2). +WPA2 is currently the most secure encryption standard for wireless networks +supported by +.Ox . +It is strongly recommended that neither WEP nor WPA1 +are used as the sole mechanism to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses. +WPA1 is disabled by default and may be enabled using the option +.Qq Cm wpaprotos Ar wpa1,wpa2 . +For standard WPA networks which use pre-shared keys (PSK), +keys are configured using the +.Qq Cm wpakey +option. +WPA-Enterprise networks require use of the wpa_supplicant package. +The +.Nm +driver offloads both encryption and decryption of data frames to the +hardware for the WEP40, WEP104, TKIP(+MIC) and CCMP ciphers. +.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 the following firmware files, +which are loaded when an interface is brought up: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It /etc/firmware/mtw-mt7601u +.El +.Sh HARDWARE +The following adapters should work: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It ASUS USB-N10 v2 +.It D-Link DWA-127 rev B1 +.It Edimax EW-7711UAn v2 +.It Edimax EW-7711ULn v2 +.It Foxconn WFU03 +.It Tenda U2 +.It Tenda W311MI v2 +.It TP-LINK TL-WN727N v4 +.It Yealink WF40 +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following example scans for available networks: +.Pp +.Dl # ifconfig mtw0 scan +.Pp +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example configures mtw0 to join network +.Dq mynwid , +using WPA key +.Dq mywpakey , +obtaining an IP address using DHCP: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +join mynwid wpakey mywpakey +inet autoconf +.Ed +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "mtw0: error N, could not read firmware ..." +For some reason, the driver was unable to read the microcode file from the +filesystem. +The file might be missing or corrupted. +.It "mtw0: could not load firmware" +An error occurred while attempting to upload the microcode to the onboard 8051 +microcontroller unit. +.It "mtw0: device timeout" +A frame dispatched to the hardware for transmission did not complete in time. +The driver will reset the hardware. +This should not happen. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr usb 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 7.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An James Hastings Aq Mt hastings@openbsd.org +based on the +.Xr run 4 +driver by +.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr . +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Nm +driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the +MT7601U chipset. +Additional work is required in +.Xr ieee80211 9 +before those features can be supported. |