Re: wireless network "supported" card roundup: 1 of 3 works

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've just tried three different "supported" wireless network cards.
>
> ral0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0: Ralink Technologies RT2561S 802.11b/g (rev. 
> 0x00)
> ral0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 17
> ral0: 802.11 address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527
> ral0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> ral0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
> 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>
> I could configure the network, it automatically found the correct SSID
> and channel. The "TX rate (actual speed)" in wiconfig dropped and
> dropped until it was at "1"; I couldn't ping the access point:
> PING ap (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ...
>
> Next one up, atu0:
> # dmesg | tail
> atu0 at uhub8 port 6
> atu0: Linksys WUSB11-V28, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 4
> atu0: reattaching after firmware upload
> # ifconfig atu0
> ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS atu0: Device not configured
>
> This one seems to work fine:
> rum0 at uhub8 port 6
> rum0: Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 4
> rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528, address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> rum0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> rum0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 
> 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> # ifconfig rum0
> rum0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        ssid mynet
>        powersave off
>        bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx chan 11
>        address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM24 mode 11g)
>        status: active
>        inet 192.168.0.33 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>        inet6 fe80::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%rum0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
>


My ral (old belkin usb- worked at some point with ural driver) gives::

ral0: could not open Tx pipe: IN_USE
ral0: cannot assign link-local address

And then it sort of acts like it works but it doesn't.