Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:02:03 +0300 From: "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> To: Matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ralink RT3090/RT2860 Message-ID: <20110518100203.7bfa63be@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD365A2.3090106@gmail.com> References: <4DD365A2.3090106@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:22:26 -0700 Matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently was using a machine with this chipset. > I noticed there is a patch available from Alexandr Rybalko which > compiles successfully against current. > > Seems to work great with rt3090 chipset, although device naming is > poor (ending a device name with 0 makes for confusion!). Stability is > high (better than my Intel Centrino 1000) and it appears ahdemo, > monitor, sta modes all work fine. A few dmesg errors which appear to > result from issues that are patched in both OpenBSD, Solaris & the > official Ralink GPL drivers (LNA Gain is ignored for 3090 and set > manually). > > What is the FreeBSD plan for this chipset? Is Rybalko's code still a > patch and not a commit due to licensing? Are we going to try to port > OpenBSD's ral to replace our own? It would also appear to be > supported by Solaris code, which appears to be slightly different > than both Rybalko's and OpenBSD's (which appear to share some > heritage). > > Matt > As far I know Alexandr is too busy now (ported fbsd into one of d-link device). Hi have plans port ral code from openbsd. IIRC it was discussed not so long ago, in current@ -- wbr, tiger
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