driver for wireless asus eeepc (rt2860)

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 12/14/08, Octavian Ionescu <itavy at itavy.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have compiled the module for rt2860 using ndis. everything worked
> almost fine except a few error messages one of them wich is very
> frustrating
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD  8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #2: Sat Dec  6 17:17:09 UTC
> 2008     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ITAVYEEE2  i386
>
> #pciconf -lv
> ....
> ndis0 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x27901814 chip=0x07811814
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Ralink Technology, Corp'
>     class      = network
>
> Dec 14 22:46:03  kernel: ndis0: <802.11n Wireless LAN Card> mem
> 0xfbef0000-0xfbefffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci1
> Dec 14 22:46:03  kernel: ndis0: [ITHREAD]
> Dec 14 22:46:03  kernel: ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
> *Dec 14 22:46:04  kernel: NDIS: open file /compat/ndis/rate.bin failed: 2*

This looks like firmware file.
Do you have put rate.bin file with others INF and SYS files when using
ndisgen(8)?
If not than you can:
rebuild miniport driver with ndisgen, including all firmware files.
or create /compat/ndis/ directory and put rate.bin in it.

>
> i can transfer files and i have installed some ports but when i try to
> cvsup to update the src's i get the following error and nothing is updating:
>     TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed
>
> i have had to go back on wired connection and on it i could update the

-- 
Paul