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18.Dd May 02, 2005
19.Os
20.Dt RAL 4
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm ral
23.Nd Ralink Technology RT2500 IEEE 802.11 driver
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.Cd "device ral"
26.Cd "device wlan"
27.Sh DESCRIPTION
28The
29.Nm
30driver supports PCI/CardBus wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2500
31chipset.
32.Pp
33The RT2500 chipset consists of two integrated chips, a RT2560 MAC/BBP and a
34radio transceiver (the model of which depends on the card revision).
35.Pp
36The RT2522, RT2523, RT2524, RT2525, RT2525e and RT2526 radio transceivers
37operate in the 2.4GHz band (802.11b/g) whereas the RT5222 is a dual-band radio
38transceiver that can operate in the 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz bands (802.11a).
39.Pp
40The transmit speed is user-selectable or can be adapted automatically by the
41driver depending on the received-signal strength.
42.Sh HARDWARE
43The following adapters should work:
44.Pp
45.Bl -column -compact "Atlantis Land A02-PCM-W54" "Bus"
46.It Em "Card                         Bus"
47.It Li "A-Link WL54H" Ta PCI
48.It Li "A-Link WL54PC" Ta CardBus
49.It Li "Amigo AWI-914W" Ta CardBus
50.It Li "Amigo AWI-922W" Ta mini-PCI
51.It Li "Amigo AWI-926W" Ta PCI
52.It Li "AMIT WL531C" Ta CardBus
53.It Li "AMIT WL531P" Ta PCI
54.It Li "AOpen AOI-831" Ta PCI
55.It Li "ASUS WL-107G" Ta CardBus
56.It Li "ASUS WL-130g" Ta PCI
57.It Li "Atlantis Land A02-PCI-W54" Ta PCI
58.It Li "Atlantis Land A02-PCM-W54" Ta CardBus
59.It Li "Belkin F5D7000 v3" Ta PCI
60.It Li "Belkin F5D7010 v2" Ta CardBus
61.It Li "Billionton MIWLGRL" Ta mini-PCI
62.It Li "Canyon CN-WF511" Ta PCI
63.It Li "Canyon CN-WF513" Ta CardBus
64.It Li "CC&C WL-2102" Ta CardBus
65.It Li "CNet CWC-854" Ta CardBus
66.It Li "CNet CWP-854" Ta PCI
67.It Li "Compex WL54G" Ta CardBus
68.It Li "Compex WLP54G" Ta PCI
69.It Li "Conceptronic C54RC" Ta CardBus
70.It Li "Conceptronic C54Ri" Ta PCI
71.It Li "Digitus DN-7001G-RA" Ta CardBus
72.It Li "Digitus DN-7006G-RA" Ta PCI
73.It Li "E-Tech WGPC02" Ta CardBus
74.It Li "E-Tech WGPI02" Ta PCI
75.It Li "Edimax EW-7108PCg" Ta CardBus
76.It Li "Edimax EW-7128g" Ta PCI
77.It Li "Eminent EM3036" Ta CardBus
78.It Li "Eminent EM3037" Ta PCI
79.It Li "Encore ENLWI-G-RLAM" Ta PCI
80.It Li "Encore ENPWI-G-RLAM" Ta CardBus
81.It Li "Fiberline WL-400P" Ta PCI
82.It Li "Fibreline WL-400X" Ta CardBus
83.It Li "Gigabyte GN-WIKG" Ta mini-PCI
84.It Li "Gigabyte GN-WMKG" Ta CardBus
85.It Li "Gigabyte GN-WPKG" Ta PCI
86.It Li "Hawking HWC54GR" Ta CardBus
87.It Li "Hawking HWP54GR" Ta PCI
88.It Li "iNexQ CR054g-009 (R03)" Ta PCI
89.It Li "JAHT WN-4054P" Ta CardBus
90.It Li "JAHT WN-4054PCI" Ta PCI
91.It Li "LevelOne WNC-0301 v2" Ta PCI
92.It Li "LevelOne WPC-0301 v2" Ta CardBus
93.It Li "Linksys WMP54G v4" Ta PCI
94.It Li "Micronet SP906GK" Ta PCI
95.It Li "Micronet SP908GK V3" Ta CardBus
96.It Li "Minitar MN54GCB-R" Ta CardBus
97.It Li "Minitar MN54GPC-R" Ta PCI
98.It Li "MSI CB54G2" Ta CardBus
99.It Li "MSI MP54G2" Ta mini-PCI
100.It Li "MSI PC54G2" Ta PCI
101.It Li "OvisLink EVO-W54PCI" Ta PCI
102.It Li "PheeNet HWL-PCIG/RA" Ta PCI
103.It Li "Pro-Nets CB80211G" Ta CardBus
104.It Li "Pro-Nets PC80211G" Ta PCI
105.It Li "Repotec RP-WB7108" Ta CardBus
106.It Li "Repotec RP-WP0854" Ta PCI
107.It Li "SATech SN-54C" Ta CardBus
108.It Li "SATech SN-54P" Ta PCI
109.It Li "Sitecom WL-112" Ta CardBus
110.It Li "Sitecom WL-115" Ta PCI
111.It Li "SparkLAN WL-685R" Ta CardBus
112.It Li "Surecom EP-9321-g" Ta PCI
113.It Li "Surecom EP-9321-g1" Ta PCI
114.It Li "Surecom EP-9428-g" Ta CardBus
115.It Li "Sweex LC500050" Ta CardBus
116.It Li "Sweex LC700030" Ta PCI
117.It Li "TekComm NE-9321-g" Ta PCI
118.It Li "TekComm NE-9428-g" Ta CardBus
119.It Li "Unex CR054g-R02" Ta PCI
120.It Li "Unex MR054g-R02" Ta CardBus
121.It Li "Zinwell ZWX-G160" Ta CardBus
122.It Li "Zinwell ZWX-G360" Ta mini-PCI
123.It Li "Zinwell ZWX-G361" Ta PCI
124.It Li "Zonet ZEW1500" Ta CardBus
125.It Li "Zonet ZEW1600" Ta PCI
126.El
127.Pp
128An up to date list can be found at
129.Pa http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ral/list.html
130.Sh EXAMPLES
131Join an existing BSS network (ie: connect to an access point):
132.Pp
133.Dl "ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00"
134.Pp
135Join a specific BSS network with network name
136.Dq Li my_net :
137.Pp
138.Dl "ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net"
139.Pp
140Join a specific BSS network with 40bit WEP encryption:
141.Bd -literal -offset indent
142ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e
143        wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890
144.Ed
145.Pp
146Join a specific BSS network with 104bit WEP encryption:
147.Bd -literal -offset indent
148ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e
149        wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213
150.Ed
151.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
152.Bl -diag
153.It "ral%d: device timeout"
154The driver will reset the hardware.
155This should not happen.
156.El
157.Sh SEE ALSO
158.Xr arp 4 ,
159.Xr cardbus 4 ,
160.Xr netintro 4 ,
161.Xr pci 4 ,
162.Xr wlan 4 ,
163.Xr ifconfig 8
164.Rs
165.%T Ralink Technology
166.%O http://www.ralinktech.com
167.Re
168.Sh AUTHORS
169The
170.Nm
171driver was written by
172.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@freebsd.org .
173.Sh HISTORY
174The
175.Nm
176driver first appeared in
177.Ox 3.7 .
178.Sh CAVEATS
179PCI
180.Nm
181adapters seem to require a PCI 2.2 compliant motherboard and will likely not
182work with PCI 2.1 only motherboard.
183