01-27-2018
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
ural
ural(7D) Devices ural(7D)
NAME
ural - Ralink RT2500USB 802.11b/g Wireless Driver
DESCRIPTION
The ural 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Ralink
RT2500USB chipset-based NIC's.
CONFIGURATION
The ural driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and mode. Supported 802.11b data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11
Mbits/sec. Supported 802.11g data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, 11, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54 Mbits/sec. The ural driver supports only BSS
networks (also known as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and "open" (or "open-system") or "shared system" authentication.
FILES
/dev/ural*
Special character device.
/kernel/drv/ural
32-bit ELF kernel module. (x86)
/kernel/drv/amd64/ural
64-bit ELF kernel module. (x86)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|Architecture | x86 |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|Availability | SUNWural |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
|Interface Stability | Committed |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
dladm(1M), wificonfig(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D), dlpi(7P)
802.11 - Wireless LAN Media Access Control and Physical Layer Specification - IEEE, 2001
SunOS 5.11 6 May 2008 ural(7D)