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18.Dd July 26, 2008
19.Os
20.Dt RUM 4
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm rum
23.Nd "Ralink Technology RT2501USB/RT2601USB 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 rum"
34.Cd "device wlan"
35.Cd "device wlan_ratectl_onoe"
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_rum_load="YES"
43.Ed
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver supports USB 2.0 and and PCI Express Mini Card wireless adapters based on
48the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets.
49.Pp
50Ralink PCI Express Mini Card adapters show up as normal USB 2.0 devices and
51are thus handled by the
52.Nm
53driver.
54.Pp
55The RT2501USB chipset is the second generation of 802.11a/b/g adapters
56from Ralink.
57It consists of two integrated chips,
58an RT2571W MAC/BBP and an RT2528 or RT5226 radio transceiver.
59.Pp
60The RT2601USB chipset consists of two integrated chips,
61an RT2671 MAC/BBP and an RT2527 or RT5225 radio transceiver.
62This chipset uses the MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) technology with
63multiple antennas to extend the operating range of the adapter and to achieve
64higher throughput.
65MIMO is the basis of the forthcoming IEEE 802.11n standard.
66.Sh HARDWARE
67The
68.Nm
69driver supports the following adapters:
70.Pp
71.Bl -bullet -compact
72.It
733Com Aolynk WUB320g
74.It
75Abocom WUG2700
76.It
77Airlink101 AWLL5025
78.It
79ASUS WL-167g ver 2
80.It
81Belkin F5D7050 ver 3
82.It
83Belkin F5D9050 ver 3
84.It
85Buffalo WLI-U2-SG54HP
86.It
87Buffalo WLI-U2-G54HP
88.It
89CNet CWD-854 ver F
90.It
91Cisco-Linksys WUSB54G rev C
92.It
93Conceptronic C54RU ver 2
94.It
95Corega CG-WLUSB2GO
96.It
97D-Link DWL-G122 rev C1
98.It
99D-Link WUA-1340
100.It
101Digitus DN-7003GR
102.It
103Edimax EW-7318USG
104.It
105Gigabyte GN-WB01GS
106.It
107Gigabyte GN-WI05GS
108.It
109Hawking HWUG1
110.It
111Hawking HWU54DM
112.It
113Hercules HWGUSB2-54-LB
114.It
115Hercules HWGUSB2-54V2-AP
116.It
117LevelOne WNC-0301USB v3
118.It
119Linksys WUSB54G rev C
120.It
121Linksys WUSB54GR
122.It
123Planex GW-US54HP
124.It
125Planex GW-US54Mini2
126.It
127Planex GW-USMM
128.It
129Senao NUB-3701
130.It
131Sitecom WL-113 ver 2
132.It
133Sitecom WL-172
134.It
135Sweex LW053
136.It
137TP-LINK TL-WN321G
138.El
139.Sh EXAMPLES
140Refer to the
141.Sx EXAMPLES
142section of
143.Xr wlan 4 .
144.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
145.Bl -diag
146.It "rum%d: could not load 8051 microcode"
147An error occurred while attempting to upload the microcode to the onboard 8051
148microcontroller unit.
149.It "rum%d: device timeout"
150The driver will reset the hardware.
151This should not happen.
152.El
153.Sh SEE ALSO
154.Xr arp 4 ,
155.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
156.Xr netintro 4 ,
157.Xr usb 4 ,
158.Xr wlan 4 ,
159.Xr wlan_ratectl 4 ,
160.Xr hostapd 8 ,
161.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
162.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
163.Rs
164.%T "Ralink Technology"
165.%O http://www.ralinktech.com/
166.Re
167.Sh HISTORY
168The
169.Nm
170driver first appeared in
171.Ox 4.0 .
172.Sh CAVEATS
173The
174.Nm
175driver supports automatic adaptation of the transmit speed in IBSS
176and HostAP operating modes,
177but it does not work well if there are more than one peer node.
178.Sh AUTHORS
179.An -nosplit
180The
181.Nm
182driver was written by
183.An Niall O'Higgins Aq Mt niallo@openbsd.org
184and
185.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien@openbsd.org .
186