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NAME

ray — Raytheon Raylink/WebGear Aviator IEEE 802.11FH wireless network device

SYNOPSIS

ray* at pcmcia?
option RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_DEFAULT=RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_USA

DESCRIPTION

The ray device driver supports the Raytheon Raylink and Aviator 2.4/PRO 802.11 Frequency Hopping 2Mbps wireless PCMCIA cards.

The device uses IEEE 802.11 standard Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum signaling and operates in the ranges of 2.400 to 2.4835 Gigahertz. This frequency range is further restricted by country according to that country's regulations. Currently the ray driver defaults to using the ranges appropriate for the USA. To change this setting, define the kernel option RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_DEFAULT to one of the following values:

RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_USA
RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_EUROPE
RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_JAPAN
RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_KOREA
RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_SPAIN
RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_FRANCE
RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_ISRAEL
RAY_PID_COUNTRY_CODE_AUSTRALIA

These are the modes the ray driver can operate in:

BSS mode

Also known as infrastructure mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through which all traffic passes. This mode is the default.

IBSS mode

Also known as IEEE ad-hoc mode or peer-to-peer mode. This is the standardized method of operating without an access point. Stations associate with a service set. However, actual connections between stations are peer-to-peer.

The ray driver can be configured at runtime with ifconfig(8) or on boot with hostname.if(5).

HARDWARE

Cards supported by the ray driver include:

EXAMPLES

The following example scans for available networks:

The following hostname.if(5) example configures ray0 to join network “mynwid”, obtaining an IP address using DHCP:

nwid mynwid
dhcp

DIAGNOSTICS

ray0: card failed self test: status x

Indicates the card has failed its initial startup tests.

SEE ALSO

arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pcmcia(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

The ray device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 2.7.

AUTHORS

The ray driver was written by Christian E. Hopps <chopps@netbsd.org> and ported to OpenBSD by Michael Shalayeff <mickey@openbsd.org>.

BUGS

Currently the infrastructure mode is untested, and authentication using WEP is unimplemented.

Firmware version 4 does not interop with version 5 or higher.