first few experiences with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on the Asus K8N-VM
Saturday, 1. March 2008, 23:55:14
Xorg is a bit of a pain in the ass and a bug in the NV server seems to make my mouse invisible.
The update from 7.0 RC2 to RELEASE was beautifully smooth.
my RA/RAL 2860 chipset wireless card is not working
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at least acpi works
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got sound to load by running kldload snd*
pcm0: <NVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xfebd8000-0xfebdbfff irq 9 at device 16.1 on pci0
pcm0: [ITHREAD]
pcm0: hdac_widget_connection_parse: nid=18 WARNING: zero cnid entnum=4 j=2 index=0 entries=8 found=2 res=0x21002211
pcm0: <HDA Codec: Analog Devices AD1986A>
pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20071129_0050>
I'll add snd_hda to my loader.conf and see what happens.
Added snd_hda to my kernel and pulled out my RT2860 now wifi is working.
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[phuket] /etc> sudo /usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c wpa.conf -iath0
Trying to associate with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx (SSID='xx' freq=2412 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
The update from 7.0 RC2 to RELEASE was beautifully smooth.
my RA/RAL 2860 chipset wireless card is not working
-
-
got sound to load by running kldload snd*
pcm0: <NVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xfebd8000-0xfebdbfff irq 9 at device 16.1 on pci0
pcm0: [ITHREAD]
pcm0: hdac_widget_connection_parse: nid=18 WARNING: zero cnid entnum=4 j=2 index=0 entries=8 found=2 res=0x21002211
pcm0: <HDA Codec: Analog Devices AD1986A>
pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20071129_0050>
Added snd_hda to my kernel and pulled out my RT2860 now wifi is working.
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[phuket] /etc> sudo /usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c wpa.conf -iath0
Trying to associate with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx (SSID='xx' freq=2412 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
WIDGETIZE
Zplay # 14. September 2008, 12:53
I have the same wlan chipset and I've just found how to use it with freebsd. I used the ndisgen tool to convert the windows driver into freebsd driver, but when you want to do 'ifconfig ndis0 up' you get a message saying that you need rt2860.bin and rate.bin.
You only have to download this archive to get the rt2860.bin file: http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/RT2860_Firmware_V11.zip
And if it doesn't exist, make /compat/ndis folder. Copy the .bin into, and make a copy of rt2860.bin with the name rate.bin (I don't know if a symlink works).
If you did well, you may have rate.bin and rt2860 (which are the same files) in /compat/ndis
Now your card is working !