Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:32:13 +0100 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> To: Paul Webster <paul.g.webster@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for merge into 9.x Message-ID: <201212122232.13305.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CADdqeiM2Heaq25b7e=r7H7wJasOdf%2BC6fWdf%2BBXD8PajGJGgfA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADdqeiM2Heaq25b7e=r7H7wJasOdf%2BC6fWdf%2BBXD8PajGJGgfA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 12 December 2012 14:29:13 Paul Webster wrote: > Hello I was recently reading about your work on the Ralink 2860, I run > an EEEPC 1000 at the moment and have always wanted to run freebsd on > it; however due to the wireless not being supported and a hatred for > hanging usb dongles handing everywhere; I had to run linux. > > I am no driver developer, but I would love to give your driver a trial > run on 9.1-RELEASE or -STABLE if easier, I am quite sure once everyone > with an eeepc realizes we finally have a working wifi card; they will > be most impressed :) > > as an aside, if you could leave me some simplish instructions on howto > actually generate the kernel module in 9.0/9.1 -RELEASE I would > happily report how well it works Which card do you have exactly (pciconf -lv)? Everything if done to ral(4) is in stable/9 and 9.1-release. So, if the card is affected by any of the changes it should be supported in 9.1-release. If not, it might just be a missing PCI ID. -- Bernhard
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