Subject: Re: ral0 under NetBSD 2.0, patch and instructions
To: None <imil@home.imil.net>
From: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/30/2005 05:22:13
iMil <imil@home.imil.net> wrote:
>i've backported Damien Bergamini's excellent ral(4) cardbus driver to 
>NetBSD 2.0. Very small patch, mostly ifdefs.
>You'll find a modified archive here: 
>http://imil.net/NetBSD/ral-netbsd-1.0-nb2-cardbus.tar.gz
>
>You'll need to add RALINK references to pcidevs, i've included a modified 
>pcidev on top of the archive.
>
>I'm actually using this driver on a 2.0 laptop, using adhoc mediaopt. 
>Looks fine :)

Two quick comments:

 1. PCI_PRODUCT_RALINK_RT2560 should be added to pcidevs instead
of being #defined in various source files.  RALINK's vendor ID is
present in current (and release-3) pcidevs, but hasn't yet been pulled
up to release-2 or release-2-0.

 2. Is it known whether this driver would work with the RA2460 (the
802.11b-only version of this chipset), or has it simply never been
tested?  I've got a:

Ralink Technologies RT2460 802.11b (miscellaneous network) at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 not configured

that I'd love to have working, especially since this driver supports
encryption (my other netbsd-recognized wireless cards are all rtw,
which currently lacks that feature...)

I'll try to find time to test this driver with the 2460 unless someone
tells me beforehand that it doesn't support it.

jdarrow

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