From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 12:20:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C86516A403 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:20:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from ns2.twenty4help.se (ns2.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A48043D4C for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:20:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by ns2.twenty4help.se (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9NCNYIG009305; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:23:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <453CB364.7060607@401.cx> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:19:48 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Norberto Meijome References: <000c01c6f61b$66ff8710$2b01a8c0@home9ccad298d7> <20061023092727.4f5fc8dd@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20061023092727.4f5fc8dd@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "E. J. Cerejo" , FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Wireless Card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:20:44 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:48:17 -0400 > "E. J. Cerejo" wrote: > >> I'm looking to buy a PCI Wireless Card for my computer, I'm running FBSD 6.1 >> release, from what I understand there are only two drivers ath and wi > > what about ralink ? man 4 ral > > i'm sure there are other wireless drivers available in src... I have a card using the ral driver, but it has been far from stable. I've experienced various problems the last few releases, and after upgrading to 6.2-PRERELEASE, any attempt to run ifconfig on this card gives a kernel panic. I've not done any serious attempts at troubleshooting this since I don't really need the card. I believe the card was branded Bay Networks something something, I could check that up if anyone wants to know. rambo# uname -a FreeBSD rambo.401.cx 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #2: Sun Oct 1 04:54:40 CEST 2006 root@rambo.401.cx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RAMBO i386 rambo# grep ^ral /var/run/dmesg.boot ral0: irq 18 at device 13.0 on pci0 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 ral0: Ethernet address: 00:11:50:15:71:94 ral0: [GIANT-LOCKED]