Linksys WMP54G Version 4.1

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:42:33PM +0200, Christopher Prance wrote:
> Does anyone know if this card is supported in FreeBSD 7.0?  Or if there is a
> way to get it to work in 6.2.  I installed it with the ndisgen.  Everything
> sets up fine, but as soon as it tries to send a packet, the kernel panics.
> Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Looking at the zipfile for the windows driver, I see the following;

Archive:  WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT.zip
  Length     Date   Time    Name
 --------    ----   ----    ----
       51  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/AUTORUN.INF
        0  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/
        0  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.0/
     7878  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.0/RT2500.CAT
    17386  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.0/Rt2500.INF
   243328  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.0/rt2500.sys

Version 4.0 has a RealTek 2500 chipset which is supported by if_ral(4).

        0  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.1/
     7870  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.1/rt61.cat
    17479  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.1/Rt61.INF
   356096  12-12-06 02:19   WMP54G-EU_LA_DRUT/Drivers/WMP54Gv4.1/rt61.sys

Looking at rt61.sys with strings(1) reveals;
rt2561.bin
rt2561s.bin
rt2661.bin

Which indicates it uses a Ralink Technology RT2561 chip, which is also
supported by if_ral(4) in -STABLE. I applied the patch from -STABLE to
6.2-RELEASE, and it works for me. I've got version 1.5 of if_ral_pci.c

It is bloody annoying that you have to go plowing through the drivers to see
what chip is inside.

Roland
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