Re: Request for merge into 9.x

From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:32:13 +0100
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 14:29:13 Paul Webster wrote:
> Hello I was recently reading about your work on the Ralink 2860, I run
> an EEEPC 1000 at the moment and have always wanted to run freebsd on
> it; however due to the wireless not being supported and a hatred for
> hanging usb dongles handing everywhere; I had to run linux.
> 
> I am no driver developer, but I would love to give your driver a trial
> run on 9.1-RELEASE or -STABLE if easier, I am quite sure once everyone
> with an eeepc realizes we finally have a working wifi card; they will
> be most impressed :)
> 
> as an aside, if you could leave me some simplish instructions on howto
> actually generate the kernel module in 9.0/9.1 -RELEASE I would
> happily report how well it works

Which card do you have exactly (pciconf -lv)?

Everything if done to ral(4) is in stable/9 and 9.1-release. So, if the
card is affected by any of the changes it should be supported in
9.1-release. If not, it might just be a missing PCI ID.

-- 
Bernhard
Received on Wed Dec 12 2012 - 20:31:40 UTC

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