From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 21:04:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7308D1065673 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pisymbol@gmail.com) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081F58FC13 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:04:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pisymbol@gmail.com) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c30so503426ika.3 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:04:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hap+kKLzANktoRdkXPDGcmlkhtMNgtypmqh7FfkSvXE=; b=Di9Ryuzpi8QqQE7GlB46IEe2bYIcS+xZBDGFFFBb52VDJ7bRmhZQVR8pxNd15s9gSb 8EkOldA8Ojh1CVlsLvYRYfdlxIIobYWqwi9JTKsZ2Vo7dH2pNBud6RAyLGHKKXMGOGNb K6hM4TZJTo1+ipowbofRZydeYXUsFSxyQo8Xk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=s0LiV0eO1Nru++1Ky1HHhZ14VvwqNo7LpeWde/J4vqFmX7aSr2Iwwa1+DW9QslJTx9 l2zB3Cc9OLTnt7qBTOu8u4NlT2Jxn8ogGcVaKRmdxoW+FfAvPhfZrsXsCxLDLh/F8JLk eugch07UVJIeEQTDXG+WxCALvV3uwgqjooC/w= Received: by 10.210.50.6 with SMTP id x6mr54680ebx.87.1215119072386; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.34.1 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3c0b01820807031404o5d1ff616k9041e2466183cde9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:04:32 -0400 From: "Alexander Sack" To: "Sam Leffler" In-Reply-To: <486D383B.7010500@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3c0b01820807021348k5effa9aej799bfc7fdc66214f@mail.gmail.com> <20080702185133.3b423e1f@verizon.net> <3c0b01820807030515v438adb7bid337fdf8a2feff07@mail.gmail.com> <3c0b01820807031202x27d9c6c2j61c574589eec93f8@mail.gmail.com> <486D383B.7010500@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, David Gurvich Subject: Re: RT2790 Wireless miniCard - ral not working on Eee Box X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:04:34 -0000 On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Sam Leffler wrote: > Alexander Sack wrote: >> >> Moving this to freebsd-drivers since it is NOW definitely a driver >> issue.... >> >> Actually I do see the rt2x00 open source project for Linux which I >> suppose will support this chipset in time. I had the impression the >> ral driver was based off OpenBSD (I believe that is mentioned in the >> man page). >> >> I'm wondering if the rt2x00 stack would be beneficial to FreeBSD in >> order to keep in sync with the development being done. Perhaps I'm >> not in the know....but I thought I would ask to learn. >> > > If this is an 11n part then it's likely based on a 2860 part and there > currently is no driver for freebsd. I have a partly finished driver for > HEAD but no time. Also the info we received from ralink is incomplete and > they don't answer queries. Sam, thanks for the heads up. Yes it is, its a 11n minicard. Btw, I'm a happy user of I believe some of the ath work you've done in the past so thanks! :D! May I ask how far along are you? And if this is something you can hand over to someone else to finish? I was going to ask ralink for a spec sheet in an attempt to see if something could be done. I *thought* they were open source friendly? Btw, about my other point, so does FreeBSD have a separate ralink stack from the rt2x00 project? (I haven't peeked at the source yet, I was hoping perhaps it had support for the card and could be ported over, etc.). -aps