9th nonblog

I just realized I've done a terrible job of properly tagging my notes.

Thanks for the link to RT2860_Firmware_V11.zip
http://web.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

        ==================================================================
        ------------------ Windows(r) driver converter -------------------
        ==================================================================

                        Kernel module generation


        The script will now try to generate the kernel driver module.
        This is the last step. Once this module is generated, you should
        be able to load it just like any other FreeBSD driver module.

        Press enter to compile the stub module and generate the driver
        module now: 

        Generating Makefile... done.
        Building kernel module... done.
        Cleaning up... done.

        The file rt2860_sys.ko has been successfully generated.
        You can kldload this module to get started.

        Press return to exit. 


[phuket] /tmp> sudo kldload rt2860_sys.ko
kldload: can't load rt2860_sys.ko: No such file or directory
[phuket] /tmp> sudo kldload ./rt2860_sys.ko

Then my host panic'ed and I'm going to sit through an fsck of 700GB of data.

not fun..

Maybe this means it's time to try out linux.

I really hate the thought of using linux simply b/c of the 802.11n support but what are my options?

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]

I was able to update from FreeBSD 6.2 to 6.3 then 7.0 BETA2 and now I'm trying to get RC1.

So far my AWLH6080 is not working. I'm guessing it's supposed to be "ral" rather than "ath" like my 802.11g AWLH4130. I tried to run with both cards installed on my miniATX ASUS K8N-VM but that caused hard hangs.

I'm interested in picking up a 500GB drive and the ebox-3853 and building a FreeNAS box with the slimdevices extention.


Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RC1 from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 3641 patches.....10....20....30....40....

#./freebsd-update.sh install
Installing updates...
Completing this upgrade requires removing old shared object files.
Please rebuild all installed 3rd party software (e.g., programs
installed from the ports tree) and then run "./freebsd-update.sh install"
again to finish installing updates.
# ./freebsd-update.sh install
Installing updates... done.
# reboot




Looks like I made it to RC1 in a strange round about way