man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

rum(7D)

Name

rum - Ralink RT2501/RT2601/RT73USB 802.11b/g Wireless Driver

Description

The rum 802.11b/g wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting the Ralink RT2501/RT2601/RT73USB chipset-based NIC's.

Configuration

Configuration

The rum 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 rum driver supports only BSS networks (also known as ap or infrastructure networks) and open (or open-system) or shared system authentication.

Files

/dev/rum*

Special character device.

/kernel/drv/amd64/rum

64-bit ELF kernel module. (x86)

Attributes

See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture
x86
Availability
driver/network/wlan/rum
Interface Stability
Committed

See also

dladm(1M), attributes(5), gld(7D), dlpi(7P)

802.11 - Wireless LAN Media Access Control and Physical Layer Specification - IEEE, 2001