Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 10:24:40 +0200 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> To: "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Ralink RT2860, RT2870, RT3060, RT3090 support Message-ID: <201205051024.40771.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20120505105258.28e28803@laptop> References: <201205031853.53102.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <20120505105258.28e28803@laptop>
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On Saturday 05 May 2012 09:52:58 Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2012 18:53:52 +0200 > Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > As some of you might know there has been some work going on porting > > support for new Ralink chipsets from OpenBSD. Several different > > drivers where floating around but nothing seemed to be decent enough > > to be committed. ray@ and I had been working on cleaning up one of > > those to get it into a good enough shape, but abandoned this approach > > as it resulted in more work than starting from scratch. > > > > So, attached diff [1] is a from-scratch effort to port over support > > for the new chipsets. It doesn't contain fancy stuff like 802.11n > > support as of yet (this will be worked one once the legacy stuff is > > in HEAD), nonetheless it showed pretty decent performance during the > > basic sta/adhoc/hostap tests I've done. > > > > I'd appreciate testing and feedback ;) > > > at 1st I would say 'Thank You' for all people who working on this :) > > patch, make, make install, kldload: > http://tiger.ipfw.ru/files/rt2860_3090.txt > > this is FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT, r234992M: Fri May 4 11:25:53 FET 2012 > from time to time on messages: > May 5 10:32:47 laptop kernel: ral0: device timeout > May 5 10:37:49 laptop kernel: ral0: device timeout > May 5 10:42:50 laptop kernel: ral0: device timeout That interval is fishy.. can you try do disable bgscan? ifconfig wlan0 -bgscan > LED... is just glowing, rarely blinks. With patch from Alexander (ray@) > it doesn't work > > [tiger@laptop]~%scp tiger:/storage/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso . > FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso 11% > 271MB 1.9MB/s 18:19 ETA > ^C > Killed by signal 2. > where 'tiger' is my desktop > > > > The diff requires HEAD due to the firmware being available only there, > > though, if there are enough requests, I might consider looking into > > getting it merged to 9. (Simply pulling sys/modules/ralfw/ and > > sys/contrib/dev/ral/ from HEAD might be enough I guess.) > > > > [1] http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/rt2860.diff > > > > > > -- Bernhard
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