From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 07:52:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B2216A420 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38AF13C465 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:52:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so120846uge for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:52:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:sender; bh=8VxSpvs2TcPMTXG+aaQM6EoleohJPU8b6p+zdTtmMGg=; b=nUVJVq7JPTcqqYWfCAveYjf3eF5LxqNX0h2mKNuSdrN5tea2ovo3R8bUJVh/VetimLNpSglYM+/qNBNE5Io3+ewSOse/4l/adzlrjWrQzNkDrQ6RWbVQaS2aKaUUy5DavPtNMxNKvXZ0WCcmINsqnrZeIrl/BSP25/wx6BcIvio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:sender; b=oLW7mscffKIKH/FdP1ynj0MmVQ3PBBc1TE2FHEgdRr2l3f4kG7Aw9m/niY1uwjOTyhqIsKqtAz+l+4w+YfLBYosY6Jw+lRJnjKwUvC6+83aPlGMGI1Hl+677A1V5juhj9Y10gWmaYwz6kxNhd30azTVQgEJNAnMWLMCirjP7i30= Received: by 10.67.196.4 with SMTP id y4mr5251137ugp.1192260304009; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homegate ( [196.34.241.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b36sm330105ika.2007.10.13.00.24.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:25:02 -0700 (PDT) From: David Naylor To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:26:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710130926.36758.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> Sender: David Naylor Subject: Rum and rt73: Signal problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:52:16 -0000 Hi. I have a Canyon USB wireless stick that uses the rt73 chipset. The problem that I am having is that the device does not appear to be operating at full strength (and does not appear to be able to change that). It is reporting the home wireless network as around -90 while the linux and windows drivers (ndiswrapper for linux) report the signal strength at around -60. Earlier linux drivers also had the same problem. I tried using project evil however it caused a kernel crash (can not remember the details). I am running FreeBSD-Current from about two months ago (I'm in the process of updating). Have a good weekend David From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 16:30:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACFC516A417; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:30:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from solarux@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s6.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s6.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9934D13C461; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:30:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from solarux@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.139.104]) by bay0-omc1-s6.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:30:57 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:30:57 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 65.55.139.123 by by134fd.bay134.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:30:55 GMT X-Originating-IP: [99.241.18.57] X-Originating-Email: [solarux@hotmail.com] X-Sender: solarux@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: From: "Rick Nekus" To: ethanhsiao@jmicron.com Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:30:55 +0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Oct 2007 16:30:57.0186 (UTC) FILETIME=[6EA95820:01C80DB6] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:47:03 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Support ? and Jmicron (jmb363) PATA/SATA controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:30:57 -0000 c/o: Ethan(Jmicron), and freebsd-multimedia;freebsd-drivers : -Thanks Ethan again, for your reply, I'm forwarding this to the FreeBSD folks as a polite heads up for their developers' in hopes we may eventually resolve this. -I'm sorry, I don't have a detailed "dmesg",... in regards. I'm trying some other tests right now, but I'll try n' get some output, short of sending the Box down there. -But heck, I'll do that too if need be. :) cheers. ______________________________________________________________ From: ethanhsiao@jmicron.com To: solarux@hotmail.com CC: sales@jmicron.com, fae@jmicron.com Subject: RE: FreeBSD Support ? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:03 +0800 Dear Sir, Thanks for your suggestion. The AHCI driver of FreeBSD 6.2-S still seems to have some problems to detect SATA DVD/CD drive. The ICH* (AHCI mode) has the same problem too. Many Linux Distributions already support JMB36x like Fedora Core 7, OpenSuSE 10.2, Ubuntu 6.10, and Mandriva 2007.1 etc Best Regards, Ethan Hsiao ______________________________________________________________________ From: Rick Nekus [mailto:solarux@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:00 PM To: fae; sales Cc: solarux@hotmail.com Subject: FreeBSD Support ? Hello, You mentioned on your site that Jmicron works with FreeBSD 5.5 and above? I am using FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (with latest updates...) Hardware: Asus P5B-Premium Vista Edition. -JMB363 sata/pata chipset Pioneer "Sata" DVD (Model DVR-212D) Drive (using AHCI mode) connected to the JMB363 satra controller port. I have the SATA (hard)drives connected on the Intel ICH8R ports (they are non-raided in AHCI mode, and I can install freebsd via ftp but not by DVD/CD drive if its connected to the JMB363 Sata port. In either case, with even the lateset FreeBSD kernel , patches,.... its doesn't even see a /dev/dvd. unfrotunately, this is unacceptable. -This same above problems happens with "many" Linux Distributions, (DVD/CD boots but then the system cannot install becuase the installer,... cannot "see" the DVD drive anymore?) however, one distro that worked fine recognizing the DVD drive connected on jmb363 port is "Sabayon Linux 3.4f " In any case, as you may well know, there are a lot of other people having the same problems (just google "jmicron freebsd"). Can some of your development/driver team work closely with the FreeBSD Driver Development team to fix this universal Linux/FreeBSD issue ? Thanks, respectfully. Rick. ______________________________________________________________________ [1]Capture the missing critters!? 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