urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Friday, February 25, 2011 11:03:04 Etienne Robillard wrote:
> On 25/02/11 04:11 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 24, 2011 21:51:23 joseph wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> i decided to get my laptop wlan via usb because my internal device isn't 
> >> supported yet.
> >> The usb device is a logilink WL0006 unit its vendorid is 0x0bda and the 
> >> productid says 0x8187.
> >> My search results say that this device depends on a RTL8187 chipset.
> >> I tried both, load the kernel module at boot time and compile kernel 
> >> withe urtw, but i get the same output at dmesg
> >>
> >> device_attach: urtw0 attach returned 6
> >> urtw0: <vendor 0x0bda product 0x8187, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2> 
> >> on usbus3
> >> urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers, err=USB_ERR_NO_PIPE
> >> device_attach: urtw0 attach returned 6
> >>
> >> im running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64.
> >>
> >> What might be the reason for this error?
> >> Thanks for all hints.
> >>     
> > Well, I have no clue about USB.. but this smells like one of the
> > endpoints is 'not there'. At least I can't find any reference to
> > it in the Linux driver. Wanna give attached patch a shot?
> >   
> 
> Hi Bernard,
> 
> For rt287x based cards, you can try using rt28700 chipset instead of
> urtw0 on
> FreeBSD 8.
> 
> The former is not in the stable src tree, but could be retrieved from here:
> 
> https://gthc.org/distfiles/freebsd/rt2870_fbsd8.tar.gz
> 
> Any takers to make module rt28700 (if_rt2870) officially part of the
> FreeBSD src tree?

I'm a bit confused now, shouldn't the rt2870 be supported by run(4)? On
a site-note, this is Ralink chipset not a Realtek one.

-- 
Bernhard