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19.Dd November 11, 2013
20.Dt RUN 4
21.Os
22.Sh NAME
23.Nm run
24.Nd Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network device
25.Sh SYNOPSIS
26To compile this driver into the kernel,
27place the following lines in your
28kernel configuration file:
29.Bd -ragged -offset indent
30.Cd "device ehci"
31.Cd "device uhci"
32.Cd "device ohci"
33.Cd "device usb"
34.Cd "device run"
35.Cd "device wlan"
36.Cd "device wlan_amrr"
37.Ed
38.Pp
39Firmware is also needed, and provided by:
40.Bd -ragged -offset indent
41.Cd "device runfw"
42.Ed
43.Pp
44Alternatively, to load the driver as a
45module at boot time, place the following lines in
46.Xr loader.conf 5 :
47.Bd -literal -offset indent
48if_run_load="YES"
49runfw_load="YES"
50.Ed
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Nm
54driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2700U,
55RT2800U, RT3000U and RT3900E chipsets.
56.Pp
57The RT2700U chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2770 MAC/BBP and
58an RT2720 (1T2R) or RT2750 (dual-band 1T2R) radio transceiver.
59.Pp
60The RT2800U chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2870 MAC/BBP and
61an RT2820 (2T3R) or RT2850 (dual-band 2T3R) radio transceiver.
62.Pp
63The RT3000U is a single-chip solution based on an RT3070 MAC/BBP and
64an RT3020 (1T1R), RT3021 (1T2R) or RT3022 (2T2R) single-band radio
65transceiver.
66.Pp
67The RT3900E is a single-chip solution based on an RT5390 MAC/BBP and
68an RT5370 (1T1R) or RT5372 (2T2R) single-band radio transceiver.
69.Pp
70These are the modes the
71.Nm
72driver can operate in:
73.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX"
74.It BSS mode
75Also known as
76.Em infrastructure
77mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through
78which all traffic passes.
79This mode is the default.
80.It Host AP mode
81In this mode the driver acts as an access point (base station)
82for other cards.
83.It monitor mode
84In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without
85associating with an access point.
86This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to
87capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to,
88or to scan for access points.
89.El
90.Pp
91The
92.Nm
93driver can be configured to use
94Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or
95Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK).
96WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks.
97It is strongly recommended that WEP
98not be used as the sole mechanism
99to secure wireless communication,
100due to serious weaknesses in it.
101The
102.Nm
103driver offloads both encryption and decryption of data frames to the
104hardware for the WEP40, WEP104, TKIP(+MIC) and CCMP ciphers.
105.Pp
106The
107.Nm
108driver can be configured at runtime with
109.Xr ifconfig 8 .
110.Sh HARDWARE
111The
112.Nm
113driver supports the following wireless adapters:
114.Pp
115.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
116.It Airlink101 AWLL6090
117.It ASUS USB-N11
118.It ASUS USB-N13 ver. A1
119.It ASUS WL-160N
120.It Belkin F5D8051 ver 3000
121.It Belkin F5D8053
122.It Belkin F5D8055
123.It Belkin F6D4050 ver 1
124.It Buffalo WLI-UC-AG300N
125.It Buffalo WLI-UC-G300N
126.It Buffalo WLI-UC-G301N
127.It Buffalo WLI-UC-GN
128.It Buffalo WLI-UC-GNM
129.It Buffalo WLI-UC-GNM2
130.It Corega CG-WLUSB2GNL
131.It Corega CG-WLUSB2GNR
132.It Corega CG-WLUSB300AGN
133.It Corega CG-WLUSB300GNM
134.It D-Link DWA-130 rev B1
135.It D-Link DWA-140 rev B1, B2, B3
136.It DrayTek Vigor N61
137.It Edimax EW-7711UAn
138.It Edimax EW-7711UTn
139.It Edimax EW-7717Un
140.It Edimax EW-7718Un
141.It Gigabyte GN-WB30N
142.It Gigabyte GN-WB31N
143.It Gigabyte GN-WB32L
144.It Hawking HWDN1
145.It Hawking HWUN1
146.It Hawking HWUN2
147.It Hercules HWNU-300
148.It Linksys WUSB54GC v3
149.It Linksys WUSB600N
150.It Logitec LAN-W150N/U2
151.It Mvix Nubbin MS-811N
152.It Planex GW-USMicroN
153.It Planex GW-US300MiniS
154.It Sitecom WL-182
155.It Sitecom WL-188
156.It Sitecom WL-301
157.It Sitecom WL-302
158.It Sitecom WL-315
159.It SMC SMCWUSBS-N2
160.It Sweex LW303
161.It Sweex LW313
162.It TP-LINK TL-WN727N v3
163.It Unex DNUR-81
164.It Unex DNUR-82
165.It ZyXEL NWD210N
166.It ZyXEL NWD270N
167.El
168.Sh EXAMPLES
169Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
170.Bd -literal -offset indent
171ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
172    netmask 0xffffff00
173.Ed
174.Pp
175Join a specific BSS network with network name
176.Dq Li my_net :
177.Pp
178.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 ssid my_net up"
179.Pp
180Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
181.Bd -literal -offset indent
182ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 ssid my_net \e
183	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
184.Ed
185.Pp
186Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption:
187.Bd -literal -offset indent
188ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e
189    wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1
190.Ed
191.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
192.Bl -diag
193.It "run%d: faild load firmware of file runfw"
194For some reason, the driver was unable to read the microcode file from the
195filesystem.
196The file might be missing or corrupted.
197.It "run%d: could not load 8051 microcode"
198An error occurred while attempting to upload the microcode to the onboard 8051
199microcontroller unit.
200.It "run%d: device timeout"
201A frame dispatched to the hardware for transmission did not complete in time.
202The driver will reset the hardware.
203This should not happen.
204.El
205.Sh SEE ALSO
206.Xr runfw 4 ,
207.Xr intro 4 ,
208.Xr netintro 4 ,
209.Xr usb 4 ,
210.Xr wlan 4 ,
211.Xr wlan_amrr 4 ,
212.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 ,
213.Xr wlan_tkip 4 ,
214.Xr wlan_wep 4 ,
215.Xr wlan_xauth 4 ,
216.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
217.Xr hostapd 8 ,
218.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
219.Pp
220Ralink Technology:
221.Pa http://www.ralinktech.com/
222.Sh HISTORY
223The
224.Nm
225driver first appeared in
226.Ox 4.5 .
227.Sh AUTHORS
228The
229.Nm
230driver was written by
231.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@openbsd.org .
232.Sh CAVEATS
233The
234.Nm
235driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the
236RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.
237