Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:29:45 +0100 From: Andrea Franceschini <andrea.franceschini@postecom.it> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DWL-G510 aka rt61 Message-ID: <20071226022945.GA62821@postecom.it> In-Reply-To: <20071104151742.GA8181@postecom.it> References: <20071104151742.GA8181@postecom.it>
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 04:17:42PM +0100, franceschini_a@tiscali.it wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently bought a DWL-G510 because i thought it > was supported on freebsd 6.2 trough ral device. > > Unfortunately it happens that this card is a rev C2 > model and, as I found later , this seem to not be > correctly handled :( > > This is how the card is seen by the system: > > 00:13.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g > Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-G510 Rev C > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 255 > Memory at f4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 > > Actually the if_ral module loads but it fails to associate: > > ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ether 00:15:e9:b3:79:14 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps) > status: no carrier > ssid homenet channel 5 > authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit wepkey 2:40-bit > wepkey 3:40-bit wepkey 4:40-bit txpowmax 100 bmiss 7 protmode CTS > bintval 100 > > > it keeps searching for the channel (it changes every time I do > an ifconfig ral0) > > I saw that someone has filed a bug report on it (kern/109227), > but no progress so far. > > The bug reports stats that the cards works on FreeBSD 7.0, > but as far as I tried it doesn't work for me. > > I tried with ndisgen too without success. > > The cards comes up but It doesn't associate. > > Does anyone have any hint? > > Thanks in advance > > Andrea. I made further investigation and it came up that the driver itself works correctly but the boards has an extremely short range... In other words I made it work placing the AP less than 5 meters away from the board. Additional antennas did not help very much.... Is just this board that has a weak signal or is the driver that wrongly set the TX power? There's a way to increase the output power by software? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "La presente comunicazione elettronica contiene informazioni aziendali non private. Eventuali risposte alla presente potrebbero essere conosciute, per motivi organizzativi e di sicurezza, dal personale di Postecom S.p.a."
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