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Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, David Gurvich <david.gurvich@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: RT2790 Wireless miniCard - ral not working on Eee Box
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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