Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

Forent Thoumie wrote:


On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:05 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2.

I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should
be supported by the 'ral' driver. However, my pciconf says:

none2@pci2:9:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x00551737 chip=3D0x03011814 re=
v=3D0x00 hdr=3D0x00
vendor =3D 'Ralink Technology, Corp'
class =3D network

Load the if_ral.ko module using kldload (or/and /boot/loader.conf) or
recompile your kernel with "device ral".

PS: This is a question for stable@xxxxxxxxxxx, not hackers@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Florent Thoumie

Hi Florent!

Many thanks for the suggestion - I should have provided more
information, but, in fact, I did have the proper command in
/boot/loader.conf.

This was with the out-of-the-box GENERIC kernel. When I added
the option in /boot/loader.conf, it complained about ral already
being there - so I'm pretty sure it's in the kernel.

That's what led me to freebsd-hackers instead of freebsd-stable,
as something is "amiss" here.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's the version of the card. Apparently,
Ralink has a few versions - this is the linksys WMP54G version 4.1
instead of version 4.0. Perhaps the "probe" in if_ral.c doesn't
find this card?

I last did serious Freebsd kernel debugging in the FreeBSD 4.x
timeframe, and a *lot* of things have changed since then. As soon
as I can find my way around again, I'll start looking into what's
going on.

Also - on a related thread - using NDIS on this card doesn't
work too well either. I can ifconfig the card, use DHCP to get
everything set-up, but the first packet moving through it
gets a very lovely panic. When I get kgdb up-and-running,
I'll have more info to pass along.

Thanks again!

- Dave Rivers -

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