From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 06:49:52 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 35D69106564A for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:49:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sendtomatt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27638FC0C for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:49:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-iw0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 33so1464107iwn.13 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 23:49:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=q3plYqHGmW3P76ucgl8C/hzEi0FqJvdXyiQHdXiygpM=; b=ALAJUikFKcHpgkxZwiGdBiYMt44v+LVbx0wbo0AY28Ys5AJ1WcKrnFVYw5qdI0SXHu a+U0dquQNP1rgkCi1dEGKpp7zs7Y3gd5IZ61D5mh3UkWj9wxrZo6CpUZBpsofvEKquWk tDqVV0mUCZ6vbVBQ1+5MRtBapvyYn1i8r1QsU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vZFzlE7iC84Yc87nGfKM70bWj26TDX7DlqMOtWcR8k1EnV7avGAAQLPbm6KeSCcB+p ZSNeq+uKW/wqpMFiR0I1TVQej60kaZJoWTY8EtzfhM2syEN7A6r0G2LUa34RuBBdqbLj oetrQvtggNZIpCEy+pezFfkLhms3wARtUQzZE= Received: by 10.42.35.198 with SMTP id r6mr1675369icd.240.1305699739998; Tue, 17 May 2011 23:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.local ([75.111.37.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jv9sm503315icb.13.2011.05.17.23.22.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 17 May 2011 23:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DD365A2.3090106@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:22:26 -0700 From: Matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110502 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 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 06:49:52 -0000 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