Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:19:38 GMT From: "Edward O'Callaghan" <eocallaghan@auroraux.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: amd64/155498: ral(4) needs to be resynced with OpenBSD's to gain RT2860/2870 support. Message-ID: <201103121719.p2CHJcYB042533@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201103121720.p2CHKANX089660@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 155498
>Category: amd64
>Synopsis: ral(4) needs to be resynced with OpenBSD's to gain RT2860/2870 support.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-amd64
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 12 17:20:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Edward O'Callaghan
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
My friend has a Asus PCE-N13 which is technically a RaLink RT2860 chipset. He wants to run FreeBSD as Linux wifi is full of problems. I told him to check the Hardware notes and he said the RT2860 isn't supported however it is on OpenBSD.
According to ral(4) on FreeBSD 8.2:
AUTHORS
The original ral driver was written by Damien Bergamini
<damien@FreeBSD.org>.
According to ral(4) on OpenBSD 4.9:
AUTHORS
The ral driver was written by Damien Bergamini <damien@openbsd.org>.
Hence it follows that, Damien maybe the person to ask for a resync between the two drivers. However I shall open a ticket here to track this issue.
Thanks for your time!
Edward.
>How-To-Repeat:
Any RaLink RT2860 chipset will do, try to modload ral(4).
>Fix:
Integrate patches from OpenBSD's version of ral(4).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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