kern/155498: [ral] ral(4) needs to be resynced with OpenBSD' s to gain RT2860/2870 support.

[Chuck Burns]

On 10/23/2012 4:10 PM, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/155498; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina at gmail.com>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, eocallaghan at auroraux.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: kern/155498: [ral] ral(4) needs to be resynced with OpenBSD's
>   to gain RT2860/2870 support.
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:02:18 +0200
>
>   Hello,
>
>   I've seen that RT2860 support has been MFC'd to 9-STABLE (great!) and
>   gave it a shot. My ral device is:
>
>   ral0 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x130f1043 chip=0x07811814
>   rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>       vendor     = 'Ralink corp.'
>       device     = 'RT2860'
>       class      = network
>
>   uname:
>   FreeBSD block.xn--pl-wia.net 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #1
>   r241898+9dad7f0: Tue Oct 23 21:58:07 CEST 2012
>
>   The driver attaches and I get a ral0 interface, but it seems not to
>   function. Kernel logs say:
>
>   ral0: <Ralink Technology RT2790> mem 0xfe8f0000-0xfe8fffff irq 16 at
>   device 0.0 on pci2
>   ral0: discard raw packet
>   ral0: discard raw packet
>   ral0: discard raw packet
>   ral0: discard raw packet
>
>   julian at block:~/ > sudo ifconfig ral0 up
>   julian at block:~/ > sudo ifconfig ral0 scan
>   ifconfig: unable to get scan results
>
>   julian at block:/tmp/ > sudo wpa_supplicant -c wpa.conf -d -i ral0
>   Initializing interface 'ral0' conf 'wpa.conf' driver 'default'
>   ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
>   Configuration file 'wpa.conf' -> '/tmp/wpa.conf'
>   Reading configuration file '/tmp/wpa.conf'
>   Priority group 0
>      id=0 ssid='AndroidAP'
>   ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument
>   wpa_driver_bsd_init: failed to get device capabilities: Invalid argument
>   Failed to initialize driver interface
>   Failed to add interface ral0
>   Cancelling scan request
>   Cancelling authentication timeout
>   ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data=0x80140f300
>   user_data=0x801460080 handler=0x427fb0
>
>   If I can test something else, please tell me.
>
>   Julian
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You need to create a wlandev wlan0 device from the ral0 device..

See the Handbook for more information:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
See in particular section 32.3.3.1.1.  Thanks.

-- 
Chuck Burns <break19 at gmail.com>