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RUM(4)			     Kernel Interfaces Manual			  RUM(4)

NAME
     rum -- Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network 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 rum
	   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_rum_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The rum driver supports USB 2.0 and PCI Express Mini Card wireless adapters
     based on the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets.

     Ralink PCI Express Mini Card adapters show up as normal USB 2.0 devices and
     are thus handled by the rum driver.

     The RT2501USB chipset is the second generation of 802.11a/b/g adapters from
     Ralink.   It  consists  of  two integrated chips, an RT2571W MAC/BBP and an
     RT2528 or RT5226 radio transceiver.

     The RT2601USB chipset consists of two integrated chips, an  RT2671  MAC/BBP
     and  an  RT2527  or  RT5225  radio transceiver.  This chipset uses the MIMO
     (multiple-input multiple-output) technology with multiple antennas  to  ex-
     tend the operating range of the adapter and to achieve higher throughput.

     All chips have hardware support for WEP, AES-CCM, TKIP, and Michael crypto-
     graphic operations.

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

HARDWARE
     The  rum  driver  supports  USB  2.0  wireless adapters based on the Ralink
     RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets, including:

     Card			  Bus
     3Com Aolynk WUB320g	  USB
     Abocom WUG2700 Ta		  USB
     Airlink101 AWLL5025	  USB
     ASUS WL-167g ver 2 	  USB
     Belkin F5D7050 ver 3	  USB
     Belkin F5D9050 ver 3	  USB
     Buffalo WLI-U2-SG54HP	  USB
     Buffalo WLI-U2-SG54HG	  USB
     Buffalo WLI-U2-G54HP	  USB
     Buffalo WLI-UC-G		  USB
     CNet CWD-854 ver F 	  USB
     Conceptronic C54RU ver 2	  USB
     Corega CG-WLUSB2GO 	  USB
     D-Link DWA-110		  USB
     D-Link DWA-111		  USB
     D-Link DWL-G122 rev C1	  USB
     D-Link WUA-1340		  USB
     Digitus DN-7003GR		  USB
     Edimax EW-7318USG		  USB
     Gigabyte GN-WB01GS 	  USB
     Gigabyte GN-WI05GS 	  USB
     Hawking HWUG1		  USB
     Hawking HWU54DM		  USB
     Hercules HWGUSB2-54-LB	  USB
     Hercules HWGUSB2-54V2-AP	  USB
     LevelOne WNC-0301USB v3	  USB
     Linksys WUSB54G rev C	  USB
     Linksys WUSB54GR		  USB
     Planex GW-US54HP		  USB
     Planex GW-US54Mini2	  USB
     Planex GW-USMM		  USB
     Senao NUB-3701		  USB
     Sitecom WL-113 ver 2	  USB
     Sitecom WL-172		  USB
     Sweex LW053		  USB
     TP-LINK TL-WN321G v1/v2/v3   USB

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

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev rum0 inet 192.0.2.20/24

     Join a specific BSS network with network name my_net:

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev rum0 ssid my_net up

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

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev rum0 ssid my_net \
	       wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up

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

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev rum0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \
	       wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1

DIAGNOSTICS
     rum%d: could not load 8051 microcode  An error occurred while attempting to
     upload the microcode to the onboard 8051 microcontroller unit.  The  driver
     will reset the hardware.  This should not happen.

SEE ALSO
     intro(4),	 netintro(4),	usb(4),   wlan(4),  wlan_amrr(4),  wlan_ccmp(4),
     wlan_tkip(4), wlan_wep(4), wlan_xauth(4), networking(7), hostapd(8), ifcon-
     fig(8), wpa_supplicant(8)

HISTORY
     The rum driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.0 and FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS
     The original rum driver was written by Niall O'Higgins <niallo@openbsd.org>
     and Damien Bergamini <damien@openbsd.org>.

FreeBSD 15.1			November 10, 2024			  RUM(4)

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