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16.Dd April 13, 2008
17.Dt URAL 4
18.Os
19.Sh NAME
20.Nm ural
21.Nd "Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 driver"
22.Sh SYNOPSIS
23To compile this driver into the kernel,
24place the following lines in your
25kernel configuration file:
26.Bd -ragged -offset indent
27.Cd "device ehci"
28.Cd "device uhci"
29.Cd "device ohci"
30.Cd "device usb"
31.Cd "device ural"
32.Cd "device wlan"
33.Cd "device wlan_amrr"
34.Ed
35.Pp
36Alternatively, to load the driver as a
37module at boot time, place the following line in
38.Xr loader.conf 5 :
39.Bd -literal -offset indent
40if_ural_load="YES"
41.Ed
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the RT2500USB chipset.
46.Pp
47The RT2500USB chipset consists of two integrated chips, a RT2570 MAC/BBP
48and a radio transceiver (the model of which depends on the card revision).
49.Pp
50The RT2522, RT2523, RT2524, RT2525, RT2525e and RT2526 radio transceivers
51operate in the 2.4GHz band (802.11b/g) whereas the RT5222 is a dual-band radio
52transceiver that can operate in the 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz bands (802.11a).
53.Pp
54.Nm
55supports
56.Cm station ,
57.Cm adhoc ,
58.Cm hostap ,
59and
60.Cm monitor
61mode operation.
62Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
63For more information on configuring this device, see
64.Xr ifconfig 8 .
65.Sh HARDWARE
66The
67.Nm
68driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink Technology
69RT2500USB chipset, including:
70.Pp
71.Bl -column -compact ".Li Atlantis Land A02-PCM-W54" "Bus"
72.It Em Card Ta Em Bus
73.It "AMIT WL532U" Ta USB
74.It "ASUS WL-167g" Ta USB
75.It "Belkin F5D7050 v2000" Ta USB
76.It "Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54-AI" Ta USB
77.It "CNet CWD-854" Ta USB
78.It "Compex WLU54G 2A1100" Ta USB
79.It "Conceptronic C54RU" Ta USB
80.It "D-Link DWL-G122 b1" Ta USB
81.It "Dynalink WLG25USB" Ta USB
82.It "E-Tech WGUS02" Ta USB
83.It "Gigabyte GN-WBKG" Ta USB
84.It "Hercules HWGUSB2-54" Ta USB
85.It "KCORP LifeStyle KLS-685" Ta USB
86.It "Linksys WUSB54G v4" Ta USB
87.It "Linksys WUSB54GP v4" Ta USB
88.It "MSI MS-6861" Ta USB
89.It "MSI MS-6865" Ta USB
90.It "MSI MS-6869" Ta USB
91.It "NovaTech NV-902" Ta USB
92.It "OvisLink Evo-W54USB" Ta USB
93.It "SerComm UB801R" Ta USB
94.It "SparkLAN WL-685R" Ta USB
95.It "Surecom EP-9001-g" Ta USB
96.It "Sweex LC100060" Ta USB
97.It "Tonze UW-6200C" Ta USB
98.It "Zinwell ZWX-G261" Ta USB
99.It "Zonet ZEW2500P" Ta USB
100.El
101.Pp
102An up to date list can be found at
103.Pa http://ralink.rapla.net/ .
104.Sh EXAMPLES
105Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
106.Bd -literal -offset indent
107ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
108    netmask 0xffffff00
109.Ed
110.Pp
111Join a specific BSS network with network name
112.Dq Li my_net :
113.Pp
114.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 ssid my_net up"
115.Pp
116Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
117.Bd -literal -offset indent
118ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 ssid my_net \e
119	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
120.Ed
121.Pp
122Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption:
123.Bd -literal -offset indent
124ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e
125    wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1
126.Ed
127.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
128.Bl -diag
129.It "ural%d: device timeout"
130The driver will reset the hardware.
131This should not happen.
132.El
133.Sh SEE ALSO
134.Xr intro 4 ,
135.Xr netintro 4 ,
136.Xr usb 4 ,
137.Xr wlan 4 ,
138.Xr wlan_amrr 4 ,
139.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 ,
140.Xr wlan_tkip 4 ,
141.Xr wlan_wep 4 ,
142.Xr wlan_xauth 4 ,
143.Xr hostapd 8 ,
144.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
145.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
146.Sh HISTORY
147The
148.Nm
149driver first appeared in
150.Ox 3.7 .
151.Sh AUTHORS
152The original
153.Nm
154driver was written by
155.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr .
156.Sh BUGS
157Host AP mode doesn't support client power save.
158Clients using power save mode will experience
159packet loss (disabling power saving on the client will fix this).
160