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17.\" $FreeBSD$
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19.Dd July 9, 2012
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 and RT3000U 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
67These are the modes the
68.Nm
69driver can operate in:
70.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX"
71.It BSS mode
72Also known as
73.Em infrastructure
74mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through
75which all traffic passes.
76This mode is the default.
77.It Host AP mode
78In this mode the driver acts as an access point (base station)
79for other cards.
80.It monitor mode
81In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without
82associating with an access point.
83This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to
84capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to,
85or to scan for access points.
86.El
87.Pp
88The
89.Nm
90driver can be configured to use
91Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or
92Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK).
93WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks.
94It is strongly recommended that WEP
95not be used as the sole mechanism
96to secure wireless communication,
97due to serious weaknesses in it.
98The
99.Nm
100driver offloads both encryption and decryption of data frames to the
101hardware for the WEP40, WEP104, TKIP(+MIC) and CCMP ciphers.
102.Pp
103The
104.Nm
105driver can be configured at runtime with
106.Xr ifconfig 8 .
107.Sh HARDWARE
108The
109.Nm
110driver supports the following wireless adapters:
111.Pp
112.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
113.It Airlink101 AWLL6090
114.It ASUS USB-N11
115.It ASUS USB-N13 ver. A1
116.It ASUS WL-160N
117.It Belkin F5D8051 ver 3000
118.It Belkin F5D8053
119.It Belkin F5D8055
120.It Belkin F6D4050 ver 1
121.It Buffalo WLI-UC-AG300N
122.It Buffalo WLI-UC-G300N
123.It Buffalo WLI-UC-G301N
124.It Buffalo WLI-UC-GN
125.It Buffalo WLI-UC-GNM
126.It Buffalo WLI-UC-GNM2
127.It Corega CG-WLUSB2GNL
128.It Corega CG-WLUSB2GNR
129.It Corega CG-WLUSB300AGN
130.It Corega CG-WLUSB300GNM
131.It D-Link DWA-130 rev B1
132.It D-Link DWA-140 rev B1, B2
133.It DrayTek Vigor N61
134.It Edimax EW-7711UAn
135.It Edimax EW-7711UTn
136.It Edimax EW-7717Un
137.It Edimax EW-7718Un
138.It Gigabyte GN-WB30N
139.It Gigabyte GN-WB31N
140.It Gigabyte GN-WB32L
141.It Hawking HWDN1
142.It Hawking HWUN1
143.It Hawking HWUN2
144.It Hercules HWNU-300
145.It Linksys WUSB54GC v3
146.It Linksys WUSB600N
147.It Logitec LAN-W150N/U2
148.It Mvix Nubbin MS-811N
149.It Planex GW-USMicroN
150.It Planex GW-US300MiniS
151.It Sitecom WL-182
152.It Sitecom WL-188
153.It Sitecom WL-301
154.It Sitecom WL-302
155.It Sitecom WL-315
156.It SMC SMCWUSBS-N2
157.It Sweex LW303
158.It Sweex LW313
159.It Unex DNUR-81
160.It Unex DNUR-82
161.It ZyXEL NWD210N
162.It ZyXEL NWD270N
163.El
164.Sh EXAMPLES
165Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
166.Bd -literal -offset indent
167ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
168    netmask 0xffffff00
169.Ed
170.Pp
171Join a specific BSS network with network name
172.Dq Li my_net :
173.Pp
174.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 ssid my_net up"
175.Pp
176Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
177.Bd -literal -offset indent
178ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 ssid my_net \e
179	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
180.Ed
181.Pp
182Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption:
183.Bd -literal -offset indent
184ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e
185    wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1
186.Ed
187.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
188.Bl -diag
189.It "run%d: faild load firmware of file runfw"
190For some reason, the driver was unable to read the microcode file from the
191filesystem.
192The file might be missing or corrupted.
193.It "run%d: could not load 8051 microcode"
194An error occurred while attempting to upload the microcode to the onboard 8051
195microcontroller unit.
196.It "run%d: device timeout"
197A frame dispatched to the hardware for transmission did not complete in time.
198The driver will reset the hardware.
199This should not happen.
200.El
201.Sh SEE ALSO
202.Xr runfw 4 ,
203.Xr intro 4 ,
204.Xr netintro 4 ,
205.Xr usb 4 ,
206.Xr wlan 4 ,
207.Xr wlan_amrr 4 ,
208.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 ,
209.Xr wlan_tkip 4 ,
210.Xr wlan_wep 4 ,
211.Xr wlan_xauth 4 ,
212.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
213.Xr hostapd 8 ,
214.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
215.Pp
216Ralink Technology:
217.Pa http://www.ralinktech.com/
218.Sh HISTORY
219The
220.Nm
221driver first appeared in
222.Ox 4.5 .
223.Sh AUTHORS
224The
225.Nm
226driver was written by
227.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@openbsd.org .
228.Sh CAVEATS
229The
230.Nm
231driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the
232RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.
233