RT2790 Wireless miniCard - ral not working on Eee Box

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org> 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