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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2012 15:52:38 +0100
From:      "Abdul Hakeem" <alhakeem@ipextelecom.net>
To:        "'Bernhard Schmidt'" <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: [CFT] Ralink RT2860, RT2870, RT3060, RT3090 support
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In-Reply-To: <201205051251.10431.bschmidt@freebsd.org>
References:  <201205031853.53102.bschmidt@freebsd.org>	<20120505105258.28e28803@laptop> <201205051251.10431.bschmidt@freebsd.org>

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Hello Folks,

Does anyone have the list of capabilities of the Ralink chipsets ?

Regards,
Abdul Hakeem

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bernhard Schmidt
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 11:51 AM
To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org; freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [CFT] Ralink RT2860, RT2870, RT3060, RT3090 support

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
>
> 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

Please apply attached patch (also here [1]) on top of the first one,
it fixes channel switching for >= 3070 (called the wrong function,
doh..) as well as a bgscan issue.

[1] http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/rt2860_1.diff

--
Bernhard





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