RT2860 NDIS needs rate.bin, where is it?

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 3/23/09, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
> NDIS finally works again in 8.0-CURRENT so I thought I'd try to get my
> RT2860 wireless working.  I built the rt2860_sys.ko using ndisgen and
> copied rt2860.bin into /compat/ndis and kldloaded the new module.  NDIS
> complains that it can't open /compat/ndis/rate.bin with errno 2.  I
> don't have a rate.bin to give it, there wasn't one in the Windows bundle
> or the Linux one though it is referenced in the Linux driver source
> code.  I tried copying rt2860.bin to rate.bin but that didn't work.
>
> I tried starting wpa_supplicant anyway, and got this:
>
> Starting wpa_supplicant.
> ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument
> ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x28407140
> user_data=0x2840e040 handler=0x8069f40
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant

Please, tell me that you start wpa_supplicant with -Dndis flag.

-- 
Paul