NAME

ural —

Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device ehci
device uhci
device ohci
device usb
device ural
device wlan
device wlan_amrr

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

if_ural_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The ural driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the RT2500USB chipset.

The RT2500USB chipset consists of two integrated chips, a RT2570 MAC/BBP and a radio transceiver (the model of which depends on the card revision).

The RT2522, RT2523, RT2524, RT2525, RT2525e and RT2526 radio transceivers operate in the 2.4GHz band (802.11b/g) whereas the RT5222 is a dual-band radio transceiver that can operate in the 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz bands (802.11a).

ural supports station, adhoc, hostap, and monitor mode operation. Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE

The ural driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink Technology RT2500USB chipset, including:

Card	Bus
AMIT WL532U	USB
ASUS WL-167g	USB
Belkin F5D7050 v2000	USB
Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54-AI	USB
CNet CWD-854	USB
Compex WLU54G 2A1100	USB
Conceptronic C54RU	USB
D-Link DWL-G122 b1	USB
Dynalink WLG25USB	USB
E-Tech WGUS02	USB
Gigabyte GN-WBKG	USB
Hercules HWGUSB2-54	USB
KCORP LifeStyle KLS-685	USB
Linksys WUSB54G v4	USB
Linksys WUSB54GP v4	USB
MSI MS-6861	USB
MSI MS-6865	USB
MSI MS-6869	USB
NovaTech NV-902	USB
OvisLink Evo-W54USB	USB
SerComm UB801R	USB
SparkLAN WL-685R	USB
Surecom EP-9001-g	USB
Sweex LC100060	USB
Tonze UW-6200C	USB
Zinwell ZWX-G261	USB
Zonet ZEW2500P	USB

An up to date list can be found at http://ralink.rapla.net/.

EXAMPLES

Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):

ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 inet 192.168.0.20 \
    netmask 0xffffff00

Join a specific BSS network with network name “my_net”:

ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0
  ssid my_net up

Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:

ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 ssid my_net \
	wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up

Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption:

ifconfig wlan create wlandev ural0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \
    wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1

DIAGNOSTICS

ural%d: device timeout: The driver will reset the hardware. This should not happen.

HISTORY

The ural driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.7.

AUTHORS

The original ural driver was written by Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>.

BUGS

Host AP mode doesn't support client power save. Clients using power save mode will experience packet loss (disabling power saving on the client will fix this).