From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 06:52:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53162F32; Wed, 4 Jun 2014 06:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (heidi.turbocat.net [88.198.202.214]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1101A2D1F; Wed, 4 Jun 2014 06:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop015.home.selasky.org (cm-176.74.213.204.customer.telag.net [176.74.213.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 861DB1FE028; Wed, 4 Jun 2014 08:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <538EC269.8020701@selasky.org> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:53:29 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller , freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver References: <5E.43.11813.830AD835@dnvrco-oedge02> <538E12ED.3050101@selasky.org> <547734.11001.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <547734.11001.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 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, 04 Jun 2014 06:52:57 -0000 On 06/04/14 04:13, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Yes, please apply by hand. I'll see if I can do some testing myself. I happen to have one of these adapters too and the link is very unstable :-) > --HPS > > Sometimes Hiro H50191 USB-stick wireless adapter works well in FreeBSD, sometimes, like now and the past few days, it's flaky. It can't seem to download distfile for qt4-xml, on two occasions. > > I also have Atheros AR9271 quasi-USB wireless adapter on this motherboard as well as Realtek 8111E (?) Ethernet that is recognized by FreeBSD but fails to connect (same as with OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD, but good with NetBSD and Linux). > > So I don't want to buy another wireless adapter (USB or PCIE?) until I find if the Hiro H50191 works better with Linux and OpenBSD. Maybe the hardware is perfectly good and the software is soft. > > All I have for OpenBSD is LiveUSB OpenBSD 5.4 from liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net , since OpenBSD can't read my hard drive at all, neither could DragonFlyBSD. > > Tom Previously there was a bug in the if_rsu driver that prevented the firmware from loading. Is this device on your mainboard? Does the BIOS support it? --HPS