Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 08:04:10 -0700 From: matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, Goran Tepshic <purpleritza@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Problem with new laptop's ral0 (Ralink 5390) Message-ID: <51812EEA.80806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokigarP1tOz0Aynqc0yEfxyazuji8QuO%2BRvgYe2qn2Ktw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADLW%2Bu0hmi%2BQ6k7R5oj4pW4T0dqbXHEjvkLjiy8%2BZ-k63sNnyA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmok0eF80ji22r0VNfYYRpL7tXHWuA-zTL3CLjdoNy5%2BO-A@mail.gmail.com> <CADLW%2Bu1SJBsUh8Owcokxvgq_erjrUWSmp_Me%2BGi9BmKymZKCPw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmokigarP1tOz0Aynqc0yEfxyazuji8QuO%2BRvgYe2qn2Ktw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/30/13 08:31, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > I've no idea, unfortunately. You'd have to start adding kernel printfs > in the driver to see when the driver locks up. I can't be much more > help than that at the moment, sorry :( > > > > Adrian > > > I'm not sure that chip is supported, at least it's news to me...the forum link seems to refer to inserting the pci ids for that chip into the ral driver. I can definitely see how forcing ral to attach to an unsupported device might hang or crash. I think this chip may be similiar to rt2860/rt3060/rt3090, as it looks like it uses the rt2800 driver in Linux. It also looks like they have only recently added support on the Linux side...and it's not that stable. I would look at the sources for any driver that does support this and see if they are having to do special conditionals to handle something specific with this chip, especially with register addresses or chip setup. It might be a good starting point for figuring out why ours doesn't work. My guess would be that invalid data is coming back from the eeprom (since addresses may have changed) and causing havoc. Is the MAC address correct? For what it's worth, the FreeBSD ral seems to be picky about devices...there are a lot of ral variants, but I think only those listed in the manpage are known to work. Adding more is going to be with a lot of printfs and testing, unfortunately. Matt
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