This driver manages the wireless network adapters based on the Ralink RT2500 chipset following the IEEE 802.11g standard.
It is developped with a Sitecom WL-115 PCI card. The network environment is a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and an ADSL Internet access.
Vendor and device identifiers supported by this driver are presented below.
1814:0201 | Ralink RT2500 802.11bg WLAN |
This driver is copyrighted © 2005 by Patrick Lafarguette. All Rights Reserved.
Some portions of code are copyrighted © by Be Incorporated.
No warranty.
Use at your own risk.
There is no need to install the add-on for using the driver with BONE.
The configuration file is used to specify wireless settings.
mode | Specify the kind of the wireless network. 0 for an IBSS, peer to peer network or 1 for a BSS, infrastructure network with an access point. The default value is 1. |
channel | Specify the radio channel to use. Possible values are from 1 to 14. |
ssid | Specify the name of the network to join or create. Up to 32 characters. If this value is not specified in BSS mode, the adapter can join all the existing networks. |
privacy | Specify if the frames are encrypted. 0 disable privacy. 1 enable WEP 64 bits and 2 enable WEP 128 bits. The default value is 0 |
authentication | Specify the authentication type. 0 open system authentication. 1 shared key authentication (requires WEP). The default value is 0. |
format | Specify the WEP keys format. 0 ASCII. 1 hexadecimal string. The default value is 0 |
key0, key1, key2, key3 |
Define the four keys associated with WEP. A key is a succession of 5 or 13 ASCII characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters according to the selected format and level of privacy. |
You can enable syslog output to get usefull debugging informations.
Send me the syslog file with your bugs reports.
This driver is written by Patrick Lafarguette.
Feel free to email me for bug report or enhancement request.
Version 0.0.4 | 09/11/2005 |
First public release. Basic support. Only BSS without privacy. Channel and ssid must be set and refer to a valid BSS. |