Rt2860/2870 wireless support
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yes, rt2860 is the driver's name. the devices are named rt28600, rt28601 etc…
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nice tip (wireless_regex),
now the wirelesscard starts automatically with pfsense.
when i activate the interface, the card changes in promicous-mode, all seems good.. but in this moment i try to connect with a wlan-client a kernel panic happens.
ok it seems that isn't a real pfsense problem… got also kernel panic by activating it directly with ifconfig...
could it be because of the src and base distributions of freebsd 8.0-RELEASE?
couldn't find them for 8.0-stable...have the problem with the shell... i always have to install 1.2.2 dev to have a shell and sysinstall... then after installation sys and base for 8.0-RELEASE i upgrade to 2.0beta.. so i keep the shell and the sysinstall and have the possibility to compile the driver...
are there any better workarounds?
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Looks like (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7010&page=13) that this driver is working now. Any chance it might be able to be shipped in pfsense firmware by default instead of needing to be fussed with?
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It might be possible. I'm not sure what issues might be caused by their wacky choice of device name though.
I didn't think it was generally allowed to have a number as a part of the device name like that (when it is part of the name, and not a probed device number).
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I would love to see this driver included in 2. The Edimax USB NIC I’m using is the only one at a decent price with a removable antenna i could find!
It would also mean i could get rid of my old 802.11g access point save some power and get better bandwidth, and all the pfsense wireless features.
Might give building the module a go on a VM and copying it over not sure if I will get very far tho! Does’ anyone have a prebuilt module for the 2870 & pfsense beta 2?
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First you have to rename the module to not use those numbers in the name :).
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+1 to what ermal said. They need to choose a better name for that driver, one that adheres to proper conventions for device naming, which doesn't include using numbers in the device name.
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Ive not yet built it! Only got as far as writing the BSD 8.1 image to a USB pen drive. Work tommorow :) Thanks though will rename it if I get that far.
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Just to elaborate: the rename involves a source code change in the driver rather than a file rename.
It may also be of interest that the FreeBSD run driver MIGHT support your device. It supports a number of the newer Ralink USB devices. See http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,27744.0.html for a little more information.
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There isn't a build with the new kernels yet, so keep an eye out for the next new snapshot and give that a try to see if run(4) will work for you.
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Ah changing the source code is out of my depth. I guess I will wait and hope its included.
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any news on this one ?
2860 drivers are avaliable here:
http://repo.or.cz/w/ralink_drivers.git
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Just curious if there are any updates?!
Gabriel
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If it doesn't work with the run/rum drivers, it isn't likely to be in 2.0.
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Thanks jimp and here's to hoping it will!
Gabriel
