[CFT] Ralink RT2860, RT2870, RT3060, RT3090 support
Bernhard Schmidt
bschmidt at freebsd.org
Sat May 5 08:24:23 UTC 2012
On Saturday 05 May 2012 09:52:58 Sergey V. Dyatko wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2012 18:53:52 +0200
> Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > As some of you might know there has been some work going on porting
> > support for new Ralink chipsets from OpenBSD. Several different
> > drivers where floating around but nothing seemed to be decent enough
> > to be committed. ray@ and I had been working on cleaning up one of
> > those to get it into a good enough shape, but abandoned this approach
> > as it resulted in more work than starting from scratch.
> >
> > So, attached diff [1] is a from-scratch effort to port over support
> > for the new chipsets. It doesn't contain fancy stuff like 802.11n
> > support as of yet (this will be worked one once the legacy stuff is
> > in HEAD), nonetheless it showed pretty decent performance during the
> > basic sta/adhoc/hostap tests I've done.
> >
> > I'd appreciate testing and feedback ;)
> >
> at 1st I would say 'Thank You' for all people who working on this :)
>
> patch, make, make install, kldload:
> http://tiger.ipfw.ru/files/rt2860_3090.txt
>
> this is FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT, r234992M: Fri May 4 11:25:53 FET 2012
> from time to time on messages:
> May 5 10:32:47 laptop kernel: ral0: device timeout
> May 5 10:37:49 laptop kernel: ral0: device timeout
> May 5 10:42:50 laptop kernel: ral0: device timeout
That interval is fishy.. can you try do disable bgscan?
ifconfig wlan0 -bgscan
> LED... is just glowing, rarely blinks. With patch from Alexander (ray@)
> it doesn't work
>
> [tiger at laptop]~%scp tiger:/storage/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso .
> FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso 11%
> 271MB 1.9MB/s 18:19 ETA
> ^C
> Killed by signal 2.
> where 'tiger' is my desktop
>
>
> > The diff requires HEAD due to the firmware being available only there,
> > though, if there are enough requests, I might consider looking into
> > getting it merged to 9. (Simply pulling sys/modules/ralfw/ and
> > sys/contrib/dev/ral/ from HEAD might be enough I guess.)
> >
> > [1] http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/rt2860.diff
> >
>
>
>
>
--
Bernhard
More information about the freebsd-current
mailing list