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author | Damien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-01-03 18:39:34 +0000 |
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committer | Damien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-01-03 18:39:34 +0000 |
commit | 3bbf2365f7fd283a7af940177e2268c33b0a4e38 (patch) | |
tree | 019f3e9a15abfd70d6001c59727c84ba352b6d16 /share/man | |
parent | 698c228268bd8e81151296c4d12c3752d06e166d (diff) |
run(4), a driver for Ralink RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U USB 802.11agn devices.
the driver supports legacy 802.11abg modes only (no 802.11n yet.)
WPA works, with hardware encryption/decryption.
committed over an RT2800U (RT2870+RT2820).
enabled on i386 and amd64 GENERIC only for now.
thanks to Paul Lin at Ralink for letting us ship the firmware under an
appropriate license.
"man page looks ok" jmc@
"you should commit it" jsg@, ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/Makefile | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/run.4 | 160 |
2 files changed, 162 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile index 1b9f47e0285..6c5e66e277e 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.472 2008/12/07 08:45:13 jmc Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.473 2009/01/03 18:39:33 damien Exp $ MAN= aac.4 ac97.4 acphy.4 \ acpi.4 acpiac.4 acpiasus.4 acpibat.4 acpibtn.4 acpicpu.4 acpidock.4 \ @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 ac97.4 acphy.4 \ pf.4 pflog.4 pflow.4 pfsync.4 pgt.4 piixpm.4 pim.4 \ pms.4 ppb.4 ppp.4 pppoe.4 pty.4 puc.4 pwdog.4 qsphy.4 radio.4 raid.4 \ ral.4 random.4 ray.4 rd.4 re.4 rgephy.4 ricohrtc.4 \ - rl.4 rlphy.4 route.4 rt.4 rum.4 \ + rl.4 rlphy.4 route.4 rt.4 rum.4 run.4 \ rtfps.4 rtii.4 rtw.4 safe.4 safte.4 san.4 sbt.4 sbus.4 scsi.4 sd.4 \ sdmmc.4 sdhc.4 ses.4 \ sequencer.4 sf.4 sf2r.4 sfr.4 sili.4 siop.4 sis.4 sk.4 sl.4 sli.4 \ diff --git a/share/man/man4/run.4 b/share/man/man4/run.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3413a92f80b --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/run.4 @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: run.4,v 1.1 2009/01/03 18:39:33 damien Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 3 2009 $ +.Os +.Dt RUN 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm run +.Nd Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "run* at uhub? port ?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2700U, +RT2800U and RT3000U chipsets. +.Pp +The RT2700U chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2770 MAC/BBP and +an RT2720 (1T2R) or RT2750 (dual-band 1T2R) radio transceiver. +.Pp +The RT2800U chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2870 MAC/BBP and +an RT2820 (2T3R) or RT2850 (dual-band 2T3R) radio transceiver. +.Pp +The RT3000U is a single-chip solution based on an RT3070 MAC/BBP and +an RT3020 (single-band 1T1R) radio transceiver. +.Pp +These are the modes the +.Nm +driver can operate in: +.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX" +.It BSS mode +Also known as +.Em infrastructure +mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through +which all traffic passes. +This mode is the default. +.It monitor mode +In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without +associating with an access point. +This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to +capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, +or to scan for access points. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured to use +Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or +Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK). +WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks. +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. +The +.Nm +driver offloads both encryption and decryption of unicast data frames to the +hardware for the WEP40, WEP104, TKIP(+MIC) and CCMP ciphers. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +or on boot with +.Xr hostname.if 5 . +.Sh FILES +The driver needs at least version 1.0 of the following firmware file, +which is loaded when an interface is brought up: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It /etc/firmware/run-rt2870 +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example configures run0 to join whatever network is available on boot, +using WEP key +.Dq 0x1deadbeef1 , +channel 11, obtaining an IP address using DHCP: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11 +.Ed +.Pp +Configure run0 to join network +.Dq my_net +using WPA-PSK with passphrase +.Dq my_passphrase : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig run0 nwid my_net wpa wpapsk \e + $(wpa-psk my_net my_passphrase) +.Ed +.Pp +Return run0 to its default settings: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig run0 -bssid -chan media autoselect \e + nwid "" -nwkey -wpa -wpapsk +.Ed +.Pp +Join an existing BSS network, +.Dq my_net : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# ifconfig run0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net +.Ed +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "run%d: error %d, could not read firmware %s" +For some reason, the driver was unable to read the microcode file from the +filesystem. +The file might be missing or corrupted. +.It "run%d: could not load 8051 microcode" +An error occurred while attempting to upload the microcode to the onboard 8051 +microcontroller unit. +.It "run%d: device timeout" +A frame dispatched to the hardware for transmission did not complete in time. +The driver will reset the hardware. +This should not happen. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr usb 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr wpa-psk 8 +.Pp +Ralink Technology: +.Pa http://www.ralinktech.com/ +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 4.5 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@openbsd.org . +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Nm +driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the +RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets. +Additional work is required in +.Xr ieee80211 9 +before those features can be supported. |