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+'\" te
+.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Damien Bergamini
+.\" 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.
+.\" Portions Copyright (c) 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
+.TH ral 7D "25 Jun 2007" "SunOS 5.11" "Devices"
+.SH NAME
+ral \- Ralink RT2500 802.11b/g Wireless driver
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.sp
+.LP
+The \fBral\fR \fI802.11b/g\fR wireless NIC driver is a multi-threaded,
+loadable, clonable, GLDv3-based STREAMS driver supporting Ralink RT2500
+chipset-based NIC's.
+.SH CONFIGURATION
+.sp
+.LP
+The \fBral\fR driver performs auto-negotiation to determine the data rate and
+mode. Supported \fI802.11b\fR data rates are 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbits/sec.
+Supported \fI802.11g\fR data rates are 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48
+and 54 Mbits/sec. The \fBral\fR driver supports only BSS networks (also known
+as "ap" or "infrastructure" networks) and "open"(or "open-system") or "shared
+system" authentication.
+.SH FILES
+.sp
+.ne 2
+.mk
+.na
+\fB\fB/dev/ral*\fR\fR
+.ad
+.sp .6
+.RS 4n
+Special character device.
+.RE
+
+.sp
+.ne 2
+.mk
+.na
+\fB/kernel/drv/ral\fR
+.ad
+.sp .6
+.RS 4n
+32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
+.RE
+
+.sp
+.ne 2
+.mk
+.na
+\fB\fB/kernel/drv/amd64/ral\fR\fR
+.ad
+.sp .6
+.RS 4n
+64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
+.RE
+
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.sp
+.LP
+See \fBattributes\fR(5) for a description of the following attributes:
+.sp
+
+.sp
+.TS
+tab() box;
+cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i)
+lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i)
+.
+ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
+_
+Architecturex86
+_
+Interface stabilityCommitted
+.TE
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.sp
+.LP
+\fBdladm\fR(1M), \fBwificonfig\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBgld\fR(7D),
+\fBdlpi\fR(7P)
+.sp
+.LP
+\fI802.11 - Wireless LAN Media Access Control and Physical Layer
+Specification\fR \(em IEEE, 2001