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16.\" $FreeBSD$
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18.Dd April 13, 2008
19.Dt URAL 4
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm ural
23.Nd "Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 driver"
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25To compile this driver into the kernel,
26place the following lines in your
27kernel configuration file:
28.Bd -ragged -offset indent
29.Cd "device ehci"
30.Cd "device uhci"
31.Cd "device ohci"
32.Cd "device usb"
33.Cd "device ural"
34.Cd "device wlan"
35.Cd "device wlan_amrr"
36.Ed
37.Pp
38Alternatively, to load the driver as a
39module at boot time, place the following line in
40.Xr loader.conf 5 :
41.Bd -literal -offset indent
42if_ural_load="YES"
43.Ed
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the RT2500USB chipset.
48.Pp
49The RT2500USB chipset consists of two integrated chips, a RT2570 MAC/BBP
50and a radio transceiver (the model of which depends on the card revision).
51.Pp
52The RT2522, RT2523, RT2524, RT2525, RT2525e and RT2526 radio transceivers
53operate in the 2.4GHz band (802.11b/g) whereas the RT5222 is a dual-band radio
54transceiver that can operate in the 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz bands (802.11a).
55.Pp
56.Nm
57supports
58.Cm station ,
59.Cm adhoc ,
60.Cm hostap ,
61and
62.Cm monitor
63mode operation.
64Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
65For more information on configuring this device, see
66.Xr ifconfig 8 .
67.Sh HARDWARE
68The
69.Nm
70driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink Technology
71RT2500USB chipset, including:
72.Pp
73.Bl -column -compact ".Li Atlantis Land A02-PCM-W54" "Bus"
74.It Em Card Ta Em Bus
75.It "AMIT WL532U" Ta USB
76.It "ASUS WL-167g" Ta USB
77.It "Belkin F5D7050 v2000" Ta USB
78.It "Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54-AI" Ta USB
79.It "CNet CWD-854" Ta USB
80.It "Compex WLU54G 2A1100" Ta USB
81.It "Conceptronic C54RU" Ta USB
82.It "D-Link DWL-G122 b1" Ta USB
83.It "Dynalink WLG25USB" Ta USB
84.It "E-Tech WGUS02" Ta USB
85.It "Gigabyte GN-WBKG" Ta USB
86.It "Hercules HWGUSB2-54" Ta USB
87.It "KCORP LifeStyle KLS-685" Ta USB
88.It "Linksys WUSB54G v4" Ta USB
89.It "Linksys WUSB54GP v4" Ta USB
90.It "MSI MS-6861" Ta USB
91.It "MSI MS-6865" Ta USB
92.It "MSI MS-6869" Ta USB
93.It "NovaTech NV-902" Ta USB
94.It "OvisLink Evo-W54USB" Ta USB
95.It "SerComm UB801R" Ta USB
96.It "SparkLAN WL-685R" Ta USB
97.It "Surecom EP-9001-g" Ta USB
98.It "Sweex LC100060" Ta USB
99.It "Tonze UW-6200C" Ta USB
100.It "Zinwell ZWX-G261" Ta USB
101.It "Zonet ZEW2500P" Ta USB
102.El
103.Pp
104An up to date list can be found at
105.Pa http://ralink.rapla.net/ .
106.Sh EXAMPLES
107Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
108.Bd -literal -offset indent
109ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
110    netmask 0xffffff00
111.Ed
112.Pp
113Join a specific BSS network with network name
114.Dq Li my_net :
115.Pp
116.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 ssid my_net up"
117.Pp
118Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
119.Bd -literal -offset indent
120ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 ssid my_net \e
121	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
122.Ed
123.Pp
124Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption:
125.Bd -literal -offset indent
126ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e
127    wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1
128.Ed
129.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
130.Bl -diag
131.It "ural%d: device timeout"
132The driver will reset the hardware.
133This should not happen.
134.El
135.Sh SEE ALSO
136.Xr intro 4 ,
137.Xr netintro 4 ,
138.Xr usb 4 ,
139.Xr wlan 4 ,
140.Xr wlan_amrr 4 ,
141.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 ,
142.Xr wlan_tkip 4 ,
143.Xr wlan_wep 4 ,
144.Xr wlan_xauth 4 ,
145.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
146.Xr hostapd 8 ,
147.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 .
148.Rs
149.%T "Ralink Technology"
150.%U http://www.ralinktech.com/
151.Re
152.Sh HISTORY
153The
154.Nm
155driver first appeared in
156.Ox 3.7 .
157.Sh AUTHORS
158The original
159.Nm
160driver was written by
161.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr .
162.Sh BUGS
163Host AP mode doesn't support client power save.
164Clients using power save mode will experience
165packet loss (disabling power saving on the client will fix this).
166