Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:36:11 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, David Gurvich <david.gurvich@verizon.net> Subject: Re: RT2790 Wireless miniCard - ral not working on Eee Box Message-ID: <486D383B.7010500@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3c0b01820807031202x27d9c6c2j61c574589eec93f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <3c0b01820807021348k5effa9aej799bfc7fdc66214f@mail.gmail.com> <20080702185133.3b423e1f@verizon.net> <3c0b01820807030515v438adb7bid337fdf8a2feff07@mail.gmail.com> <3c0b01820807031202x27d9c6c2j61c574589eec93f8@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Alexander Sack wrote:
> Moving this to freebsd-drivers since it is NOW definitely a driver issue....
>
> Actually I do see the rt2x00 open source project for Linux which I
> suppose will support this chipset in time. I had the impression the
> ral driver was based off OpenBSD (I believe that is mentioned in the
> man page).
>
> I'm wondering if the rt2x00 stack would be beneficial to FreeBSD in
> order to keep in sync with the development being done. Perhaps I'm
> not in the know....but I thought I would ask to learn.
>
If this is an 11n part then it's likely based on a 2860 part and there
currently is no driver for freebsd. I have a partly finished driver for
HEAD but no time. Also the info we received from ralink is incomplete
and they don't answer queries.
Sam
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?486D383B.7010500>