Sunday, 28. September 2008, 07:15:30
rt2860, 802.11n, Ubuntu
This is so trivial I dont know why I'm bothering.
Installed Ubuntu on a spare drive today. After a bit of patching and building the ra0 support. I have an interface.
The crap network utility on Ubuntu will not connect to my WPA2 encrypted AEBS.
Turned off WPA and manually connected ra0 to my AP.
I'm done.
It was that simple to get 802.11n up in Ubuntu.
I'll have to benchmark Sunday to confirm the rate is proper.
If I dont see panic in the next 12 hours I'll bother to try WPA2 manually.
It looks just like FreeBSD.
What a mess.
Saturday, 20. September 2008, 19:04:54
rt2860, 802.11n, FreeBSD
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
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------------------ Windows(r) driver converter -------------------
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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?
Saturday, 1. March 2008, 23:55:14
K8N-VM, rt2860, FreeBSD
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]
Sunday, 10. February 2008, 06:51:03
ndis, FreeBSD, rt2860
this may be progress...
ndis0: <Airlink101 300N Wireless PCI Adapter> mem 0xfaaf0000-0xfaafffff irq 9 at device 7.0 on pci4
ndis0: [ITHREAD]
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
NDIS: open file /compat/ndis/rt2860.bin failed: 2
NDIS: open file /compat/ndis/rate.bin failed: 2
ndis0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:18:02:60:xx:xx
I followed the ndis instructions
hereI found the rt2860.bin file inside the linux support package at ralink.
RT2860 I need to understand what rate.bin is now. To bad I cant google "rate.bin"
WIDGETIZE