Ralink RT3090/RT2860

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:22:26 -0700
Matt <sendtomatt at 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@ 

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wbr, tiger