Ralink wireless driver help
E. J. Cerejo
ejc64 at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 31 02:50:43 UTC 2006
Thanks simon, but I already decided to change to an atheros card, too many
problems with this one plus no one is working for the betterment of this
driver any more.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Gray" <simon.gray at identrica.com>
To: "E. J. Cerejo" <ejc64 at earthlink.net>
Cc: <FreeBSD-questions at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:11 AM
Subject: RE: Ralink wireless driver help
>FREEBSD 6.1 RELEASE
>I just bought a wireless pci card, CNet CWP-854, and according to the
ral
> man page this card is supported. I compiled a new kernel with 'device
> wlan' and 'device ral' as per the ral man page, it compile without any
> errors, but I can't get it to work.
>If I run: 'ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.1.42 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid
> 04Z412560727'
>I get this: 'ifconfig: interface ral0 does not exist'
>I run this: 'kldload if_ral'
>I get this: 'kldload: can't load if_ral: File exists'
Hi,
I'm using an identical card under 6.0-stable without any problems.
Within my kernel I have:
device wlan
device an
device awi
device ral
device wi
It might be a silly question - but have you installed the new kernel?
If you have compiled and installed the kernel with support for the
device
you shouldn't need to load any modules for it.
My kldstat shows:
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 13 0xc0400000 55e1d8 kernel
2 1 0xc095f000 91f0 bridge.ko
3 1 0xc0969000 2d90 wlan_wep.ko
4 1 0xc096c000 41c4 wlan_tkip.ko
5 1 0xc0971000 6fe4 wlan_ccmp.ko
6 1 0xc0978000 1bac wlan_xauth.ko
7 1 0xc097a000 2ef4 wlan_acl.ko
8 1 0xc2655000 b000 ntfs.ko
Although I've never got it working properly with wpa/tkip and have
recently
replaced it with a linksys wrt54g. Worked fine for ages with
unencrypted/wep.
>I run this: 'pciconf -lv'
>I get this: none1 at pci2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x25611814
chip=0x03011814
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Ralink Technology, Corp'
I get:
ral0 at pci0:14:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00201371 chip=0x02011814 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Ralink Technology, Corp'
device = 'Ralink RT2500 802.11 CardBus Reference Card'
class = network
HTH,
Simon
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