From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 20:13:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F33106566B for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f24.google.com (mail-gx0-f24.google.com [209.85.217.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0238FC1B for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:13:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: by gxk5 with SMTP id 5so3235612gxk.19 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:13:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:organization:to:subject :date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=s7MMYHC9jhNdrPh8x7Ylr+W4SdQifapvbm1XLZ+5pTQ=; b=ceLd1gSathIlHRS3xbG/DJSbjbA66z/EZ8+RPytyVioDP9tyjc8ff0ri66zTXFOWlG wD+btXcOLkAyTOsoU1Z4ocyVJnZ1lMmNXq1tJWkJyXUiuwH33MIlx3uOIAEbbE7X/7PW uu07rdgdQu/lWK4KEAOGuUxEWAEl7RsmDBR80= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=UXFNaGjdh5XK/L+Op4HvB2ea/MY0XprYSbF50UovIYlgTmggNqGVH5ZIEfQqdZL5nt BXlasl3q8dA43xePPzHcFI5FttgfwaJrwlZ33ez1c2fs6yGGFTLFUV/bIFETkNS4YXMo MK2o/J+xqHZ1YH+uprN7+/8VQj88dmtAkiNfM= Received: by 10.100.109.13 with SMTP id h13mr177605anc.146.1217880817733; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?0.0.0.0? ( [196.34.241.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h7sm8381282wxd.12.2008.08.04.13.13.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:13:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Naylor Organization: Private To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:13:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1260664.98LXve3yzK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200808042213.19795.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:51:32 +0000 Subject: ral, rum and bi-antenna X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:13:39 -0000 --nextPart1260664.98LXve3yzK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I happen to have the good fortune of owning a RT2661S (ral driver) and a=20 RT2601USB (rum driver) [manufactured by Canyon]. Both chipsets have the=20 ability to handle two antenna. =20 Now the good fortune, both chipsets default to the wrong antenna. When I=20 should be getting a stable connection at about -70dBm instead I am getting= =20 very poor connection (less than 50% connectivity, reported from ping) and=20 about -90dBm. =20 After looking at the FreeBSD driver code (and the [Open/Net]BSD) the antenn= a=20 selection is marked as *TBD*. Does anyone know how to add antenna selectio= n=20 (the ralink linux drivers are a wild maze). I considered trying to do it=20 myself but I do not know the first thing about kernel hacking (let alone=20 chipset drivers) and have no idea where to start. =20 I was thinking a stop-gap solution will be to have the antenna selectable=20 using tunables/sysctl? =20 Needless to say I am very willing to try any patches (and even attempt to=20 create one myself if someone could point me in the right direction...). =20 Regards David P.S. Anyone know the release schedule for 6.4 and 7.1? --nextPart1260664.98LXve3yzK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIl2LfUaaFgP9pFrIRAv8NAJ9YaaCZicQ6sl+OFGKEgB4eXimAbQCdEcE5 RKpRz3RaDuaRGNAsaIUKFEQ= =qMj/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1260664.98LXve3yzK--