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19.Dd January 29, 2010
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
39Alternatively, to load the driver as a
40module at boot time, place the following line in
41.Xr loader.conf 5 :
42.Bd -literal -offset indent
43if_run_load="YES"
44.Ed
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2700U,
49RT2800U and RT3000U chipsets.
50.Pp
51The RT2700U chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2770 MAC/BBP and
52an RT2720 (1T2R) or RT2750 (dual-band 1T2R) radio transceiver.
53.Pp
54The RT2800U chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2870 MAC/BBP and
55an RT2820 (2T3R) or RT2850 (dual-band 2T3R) radio transceiver.
56.Pp
57The RT3000U is a single-chip solution based on an RT3070 MAC/BBP and
58an RT3020 (1T1R), RT3021 (1T2R) or RT3022 (2T2R) single-band radio
59transceiver.
60.Pp
61These are the modes the
62.Nm
63driver can operate in:
64.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX"
65.It BSS mode
66Also known as
67.Em infrastructure
68mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through
69which all traffic passes.
70This mode is the default.
71.It monitor mode
72In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without
73associating with an access point.
74This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to
75capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to,
76or to scan for access points.
77.El
78.Pp
79The
80.Nm
81driver can be configured to use
82Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or
83Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK).
84WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks.
85It is strongly recommended that WEP
86not be used as the sole mechanism
87to secure wireless communication,
88due to serious weaknesses in it.
89The
90.Nm
91driver offloads both encryption and decryption of data frames to the
92hardware for the WEP40, WEP104, TKIP(+MIC) and CCMP ciphers.
93.Pp
94The
95.Nm
96driver can be configured at runtime with
97.Xr ifconfig 8
98or on boot with
99.Xr hostname.if 5 .
100.Sh HARDWARE
101The
102.Nm
103driver supports the following wireless adapters:
104.Pp
105.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
106.It Airlink101 AWLL6090
107.It ASUS USB-N11
108.It ASUS USB-N13
109.It ASUS WL-160N
110.It Belkin F5D8051 ver 3000
111.It Belkin F5D8053
112.It Belkin F5D8055
113.It Belkin F6D4050 ver 1
114.It Buffalo WLI-UC-AG300N
115.It Buffalo WLI-UC-G300N
116.It Buffalo WLI-UC-GN
117.It Corega CG-WLUSB2GNL
118.It Corega CG-WLUSB2GNR
119.It Corega CG-WLUSB300AGN
120.It Corega CG-WLUSB300GNM
121.It D-Link DWA-130 rev B1
122.It D-Link DWA-140
123.It DrayTek Vigor N61
124.It Edimax EW-7711UAn
125.It Edimax EW-7711UTn
126.It Edimax EW-7717Un
127.It Edimax EW-7718Un
128.It Gigabyte GN-WB30N
129.It Gigabyte GN-WB31N
130.It Gigabyte GN-WB32L
131.It Hawking HWDN1
132.It Hawking HWUN1
133.It Hawking HWUN2
134.It Hercules HWNU-300
135.It Linksys WUSB54GC v3
136.It Linksys WUSB600N
137.It Mvix Nubbin MS-811N
138.It Planex GW-USMicroN
139.It Planex GW-US300MiniS
140.It Sitecom WL-182
141.It Sitecom WL-188
142.It Sitecom WL-301
143.It Sitecom WL-302
144.It Sitecom WL-315
145.It SMC SMCWUSBS-N2
146.It Sweex LW303
147.It Sweex LW313
148.It Unex DNUR-81
149.It Unex DNUR-82
150.It ZyXEL NWD210N
151.It ZyXEL NWD270N
152.El
153.Sh EXAMPLES
154Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
155.Bd -literal -offset indent
156ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e
157    netmask 0xffffff00
158.Ed
159.Pp
160Join a specific BSS network with network name
161.Dq Li my_net :
162.Pp
163.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 ssid my_net up"
164.Pp
165Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
166.Bd -literal -offset indent
167ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 ssid my_net \e
168	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
169.Ed
170.Pp
171Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption:
172.Bd -literal -offset indent
173ifconfig wlan create wlandev run0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e
174    wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1
175.Ed
176.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
177.Bl -diag
178.It "run%d: error %d, could not read firmware %s"
179For some reason, the driver was unable to read the microcode file from the
180filesystem.
181The file might be missing or corrupted.
182.It "run%d: could not load 8051 microcode"
183An error occurred while attempting to upload the microcode to the onboard 8051
184microcontroller unit.
185.It "run%d: device timeout"
186A frame dispatched to the hardware for transmission did not complete in time.
187The driver will reset the hardware.
188This should not happen.
189.El
190.Sh SEE ALSO
191.Xr intro 4 ,
192.Xr netintro 4 ,
193.Xr usb 4 ,
194.Xr wlan 4 ,
195.Xr wlan_amrr 4 ,
196.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 ,
197.Xr wlan_tkip 4 ,
198.Xr wlan_wep 4 ,
199.Xr wlan_xauth 4 ,
200.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
201.Xr hostapd 8 ,
202.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 .
203.Pp
204Ralink Technology:
205.Pa http://www.ralinktech.com/
206.Sh HISTORY
207The
208.Nm
209driver first appeared in
210.Ox 4.5 .
211.Sh AUTHORS
212The
213.Nm
214driver was written by
215.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@openbsd.org .
216.Sh CAVEATS
217The
218.Nm
219driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the
220RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.
221