runfw(4)

runfw4

Firmware module for ralink driver

Usage

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.conf(5):

runfw_load="YES"

Overview

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.

Releases

37 releases since FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE; the text changed 23 times.

  1. 8.2
  2. 8.3
  3. 8.4
  4. 9.0
  5. 9.1
  6. 9.2
  7. 9.3
  8. 10.0
  9. 10.1
  10. 10.2
  11. 10.3
  12. 10.4
  13. 11.0
  14. 11.1
  15. 11.2
  16. 11.3
  17. 11.4
  18. 12.0
  19. 12.1
  20. 12.2
  21. 12.3
  22. 12.4
  23. 13.0–13.2
  24. 13.3–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.