From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 26 02:50:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DFA16A419 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:50:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrea.franceschini@postecom.it) Received: from relay-pt2.poste.it (relay-pt2.poste.it [62.241.5.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F8313C458 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:50:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrea.franceschini@postecom.it) X-CP-Disclaimer: Received: from knute.cs.poste.it (192.168.44.50) by relay-pt2.poste.it (7.3.122) id 477199D3000005A9 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:29:46 +0100 Received: from knute.cs.poste.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knute.cs.poste.it (8.14.2/8.12.10) with ESMTP id lBQ2TjG8063286 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:29:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andrea.franceschini@postecom.it) Received: (from andrea@localhost) by knute.cs.poste.it (8.14.2/8.12.10/Submit) id lBQ2TjDM063285 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:29:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andrea.franceschini@postecom.it) X-Authentication-Warning: knute.cs.poste.it: andrea set sender to andrea.franceschini@postecom.it using -f Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:29:45 +0100 From: Andrea Franceschini To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071226022945.GA62821@postecom.it> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <20071104151742.GA8181@postecom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071104151742.GA8181@postecom.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: DWL-G510 aka rt61 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:50:30 -0000 On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 04:17:42PM +0100, franceschini_a@tiscali.it wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently bought a DWL-G510 because i thought it > was supported on freebsd 6.2 trough ral device. > > Unfortunately it happens that this card is a rev C2 > model and, as I found later , this seem to not be > correctly handled :( > > This is how the card is seen by the system: > > 00:13.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g > Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-G510 Rev C > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 255 > Memory at f4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 > > Actually the if_ral module loads but it fails to associate: > > ral0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > ether 00:15:e9:b3:79:14 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps) > status: no carrier > ssid homenet channel 5 > authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit wepkey 2:40-bit > wepkey 3:40-bit wepkey 4:40-bit txpowmax 100 bmiss 7 protmode CTS > bintval 100 > > > it keeps searching for the channel (it changes every time I do > an ifconfig ral0) > > I saw that someone has filed a bug report on it (kern/109227), > but no progress so far. > > The bug reports stats that the cards works on FreeBSD 7.0, > but as far as I tried it doesn't work for me. > > I tried with ndisgen too without success. > > The cards comes up but It doesn't associate. > > Does anyone have any hint? > > Thanks in advance > > Andrea. I made further investigation and it came up that the driver itself works correctly but the boards has an extremely short range... In other words I made it work placing the AP less than 5 meters away from the board. Additional antennas did not help very much.... Is just this board that has a weak signal or is the driver that wrongly set the TX power? There's a way to increase the output power by software? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "La presente comunicazione elettronica contiene informazioni aziendali non private. Eventuali risposte alla presente potrebbero essere conosciute, per motivi organizzativi e di sicurezza, dal personale di Postecom S.p.a."