runfw (4)

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Copyright (c) 2010 Akinori Furukoshi <moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca>
Copyright (c) 2010 Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNES...

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/runfw.4freebsd".)

NAME

runfw - Firmware Module for Ralink driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this module into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

device runfw

This will include two firmware images, RT2870 and RT3071, inside the kernel. run(4) will load the appropriate image into the chip.

Alternatively, to load the firmware images as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf5:

runfw_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

This module provides firmware sets for the Ralink RT2700U, RT2800U, RT3000U and RT3900E chip based USB WiFi adapters. Please read Ralink's license, src/sys/contrib/dev/run/LICENSE.

SEE ALSO

run(4), firmware(9)