Ralink RT5372l support
Kevin Lo
kevlo at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 31 05:45:53 UTC 2013
On 2013/12/26 17:01, Kevin Lo wrote:
> On 2013/12/26 14:53, Anton Mazunin wrote:
>> Hello everybody. Recently I was choosing usb wifi adapter for my pc,
>> and decided the best way to be happy in this things is to buy one
>> which is in freebsd supported hardware list. After few minutes of
>> searching, the choise was done and I went to the closest shop and
>> bought D-Link DWA-140.
>> I have to say that I was very upset when my OS only showed me:
>> <Ralink> at usbus1 (connected) but no device appeared in ifconfig.
>> The only string appeared in dmesg was <Ralink> at usbus1 (connected).
>> Ok, lets see what my linux laptop would show me. And you know what?
>> The same thing!
>> Then I decided to open the cover and see which chip is on the board.
>> It was Ralink RT5372l. After some time of googling I recognized there
>> is no support for this chip in run driver.
>> So here is the question: is there any way to make this device work on
>> my pc? btw I'm using freebsd 9.2
>> Thank you for help! Hope I didn't get much of your time.
>
> Hi Anton,
>
> RT5372 is supported in -HEAD:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-November/053372.html
>
> If you want to give it a try, you can install FreeBSD -CURRENT using the
> snapshots images which you can find here:
> https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/i386-i386/11.0-HEAD-r259869-JPSNAP/
>
>
> Let me know if it works for you, thanks.
Just for the record, run(4) works for Anton after r259939.
Kevin
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