From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 07:31:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCB2106564A for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 07:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sergey.dyatko@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABF98FC08 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 07:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so1663885bwz.13 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 00:31:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z1cXS/7TVSbxqFJFms07XpXWpY98FQGdr1yxBXzt/zo=; b=wYvhDNz7ec5PuG10Bl2JZ/ufgdDpDBV4fKA2nGhLLf/Z/bTPWfbTcSU27j1NhqEro7 i+WdyuFSM3tRbGoCGlvjaHuD6DvuRwKwfS4WLCmHOdBlqWcRc5E6iOZDbgIsLIJt6Ozf D0DMnj7Sp6LXsfiqaz+tt2aJhDvswnAqi6Qxs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YITl3s13stlfdqmJKHDzH5+awFoOTU+z5Kgk0Ykzd4RzZtscNhe1/izjrd9zOBtL0n Pwa1SY4hj3+A1OW2qhURFcQB95ywjOLVj1ru30iS0IkwJd8hOGFgkfwi0eILZalYmg8V eFPxYS8wCPujtJUELnfzPsblpGJYOnuEiuEDs= Received: by 10.204.19.6 with SMTP id y6mr1465977bka.159.1305702122498; Wed, 18 May 2011 00:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (minsk.agava.net [212.98.174.157]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y22sm759267bku.8.2011.05.18.00.01.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 May 2011 00:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:02:03 +0300 From: "Sergey V. Dyatko" To: Matt Message-ID: <20110518100203.7bfa63be@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD365A2.3090106@gmail.com> References: <4DD365A2.3090106@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ralink RT3090/RT2860 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 07:31:38 -0000 On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:22:26 -0700 Matt wrote: > I recently was using a machine with this chipset. > I noticed there is a patch available from Alexandr Rybalko which > compiles successfully against current. > > Seems to work great with rt3090 chipset, although device naming is > poor (ending a device name with 0 makes for confusion!). Stability is > high (better than my Intel Centrino 1000) and it appears ahdemo, > monitor, sta modes all work fine. A few dmesg errors which appear to > result from issues that are patched in both OpenBSD, Solaris & the > official Ralink GPL drivers (LNA Gain is ignored for 3090 and set > manually). > > What is the FreeBSD plan for this chipset? Is Rybalko's code still a > patch and not a commit due to licensing? Are we going to try to port > OpenBSD's ral to replace our own? It would also appear to be > supported by Solaris code, which appears to be slightly different > than both Rybalko's and OpenBSD's (which appear to share some > heritage). > > Matt > As far I know Alexandr is too busy now (ported fbsd into one of d-link device). Hi have plans port ral code from openbsd. IIRC it was discussed not so long ago, in current@ -- wbr, tiger