Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:13:14 +0200 From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ral, rum and bi-antenna Message-ID: <200808042213.19795.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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--nextPart1260664.98LXve3yzK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I happen to have the good fortune of owning a RT2661S (ral driver) and a=20 RT2601USB (rum driver) [manufactured by Canyon]. Both chipsets have the=20 ability to handle two antenna. =20 Now the good fortune, both chipsets default to the wrong antenna. When I=20 should be getting a stable connection at about -70dBm instead I am getting= =20 very poor connection (less than 50% connectivity, reported from ping) and=20 about -90dBm. =20 After looking at the FreeBSD driver code (and the [Open/Net]BSD) the antenn= a=20 selection is marked as *TBD*. Does anyone know how to add antenna selectio= n=20 (the ralink linux drivers are a wild maze). I considered trying to do it=20 myself but I do not know the first thing about kernel hacking (let alone=20 chipset drivers) and have no idea where to start. =20 I was thinking a stop-gap solution will be to have the antenna selectable=20 using tunables/sysctl? =20 Needless to say I am very willing to try any patches (and even attempt to=20 create one myself if someone could point me in the right direction...). =20 Regards David P.S. Anyone know the release schedule for 6.4 and 7.1? --nextPart1260664.98LXve3yzK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIl2LfUaaFgP9pFrIRAv8NAJ9YaaCZicQ6sl+OFGKEgB4eXimAbQCdEcE5 RKpRz3RaDuaRGNAsaIUKFEQ= =qMj/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1260664.98LXve3yzK--
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