From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 11:47:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34088106564A; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erob@gthcfoundation.org) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA118FC08; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:47:13 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([184.162.50.38]) by VL-MR-MRZ20.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LH600INJ8QA4260@VL-MR-MRZ20.ip.videotron.ca>; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:46:58 -0500 (EST) Message-id: <4D6796C0.6040402@gthcfoundation.org> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:47:12 -0500 From: Etienne Robillard Organization: Green Tea Hackers Club User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101227 Icedove/3.0.11 To: bschmidt@freebsd.org References: <4D66C4CB.1060207@2egos.de> <201102251011.03839.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <4D677E58.1080808@gthcfoundation.org> <201102251218.12664.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-reply-to: <201102251218.12664.bschmidt@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: erob@gthcfoundation.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:47:14 -0000 On 25/02/11 06:18 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > On Friday, February 25, 2011 11:03:04 Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> On 25/02/11 04:11 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, February 24, 2011 21:51:23 joseph wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> i decided to get my laptop wlan via usb because my internal device isn't >>>> supported yet. >>>> The usb device is a logilink WL0006 unit its vendorid is 0x0bda and the >>>> productid says 0x8187. >>>> My search results say that this device depends on a RTL8187 chipset. >>>> I tried both, load the kernel module at boot time and compile kernel >>>> withe urtw, but i get the same output at dmesg >>>> >>>> device_attach: urtw0 attach returned 6 >>>> urtw0: >>>> on usbus3 >>>> urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers, err=USB_ERR_NO_PIPE >>>> device_attach: urtw0 attach returned 6 >>>> >>>> im running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64. >>>> >>>> What might be the reason for this error? >>>> Thanks for all hints. >>>> >>>> >>> Well, I have no clue about USB.. but this smells like one of the >>> endpoints is 'not there'. At least I can't find any reference to >>> it in the Linux driver. Wanna give attached patch a shot? >>> >>> >> Hi Bernard, >> >> For rt287x based cards, you can try using rt28700 chipset instead of >> urtw0 on >> FreeBSD 8. >> >> The former is not in the stable src tree, but could be retrieved from here: >> >> https://gthc.org/distfiles/freebsd/rt2870_fbsd8.tar.gz >> >> Any takers to make module rt28700 (if_rt2870) officially part of the >> FreeBSD src tree? >> > I'm a bit confused now, shouldn't the rt2870 be supported by run(4)? On > a site-note, this is Ralink chipset not a Realtek one. > > I believe this is a different implementation for RT8187 usb network adapters than run(4). However in my view I found urtw0 buggy, but would certainly take a look at run(4) to compare the results with wireless networking agaisnt the other driver (rt28700). Thanks, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: erob@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org/ Website (Blog): https://gthc.org/blog/ PGP public key fingerprint: F2A9 32EA 8E7C 460F 1728 A1A7 649C 7F17 A086 DDEC During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -- John F. Kennedy