DWL-G510 aka rt61

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:17:42 +0100
franceschini_a at tiscali.it wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	I recently bought a DWL-G510 because i thought it
> 	was supported on freebsd 6.2 trough ral device.
> 
> 	Unfortunately it happens that this card is a rev C2
> 	model and, as I found later , this seem to not be
> 	correctly handled :(
> 
> 	This is how the card is seen by the system:
> 
> 	00:13.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
>         Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-G510 Rev C
>         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 255
>         Memory at f4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> 
> 	Actually the if_ral module loads but it fails to associate:
> 
> ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ether 00:15:e9:b3:79:14
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid homenet channel 5
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit wepkey
>         2:40-bit wepkey 3:40-bit wepkey 4:40-bit txpowmax 100 bmiss
>         7 protmode CTS bintval 100
> 
> 	
> 	it keeps searching for the channel (it changes every time I do
> 	an ifconfig ral0)
> 
> 	I saw that someone has filed a bug report on it (kern/109227),
> 	but no progress so far.
> 	
> 	The bug reports stats that the cards works on FreeBSD 7.0, 
> 	but as far as I tried it doesn't work for me.
> 
> 	I tried with ndisgen too without success.
> 
> 	The cards comes up but It doesn't associate.
> 
> 	Does anyone have any hint?
> 

About the simmilar case as of me.

Try using ndisgen + Win9x drivers (rt61_9x.sys/inf from the driver
CD). Works for me (well, for now at least..).


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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