ral(4): device timeout and lockups

[johan.wallen+ (Johan Wallén)]

Hello,

I am having troubles with ral(4) (A-Link WL54PC, which should be a
Ralink RT2661 chipset): when doing an ifconfig up or anything similar,
I just get a `ral0: device timeout', which according to the man page
should not happen. Occasionally, the computer locks up completely
when the card is attached -- a power reset seems to be the only way
out. This is under macppc/4.99.1. I have never used the card before,
so there might simply be a hardware problem. Does anybody else see
this problem?

One other issue: does anybody have recommendations for good cardbus
IEEE802.11(b/)g devices that are widely available and work well under
NetBSD (or that are well documented) without using binary firmware
blobs (I do not want to bring up the `blobs are evil' debate -- I just
thought that if I buy a card, I could vote with my money at the same
time).

Thanks in advance,

-- Johan

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[Rui Paulo]

Post by johan.wallen+ (Johan Wallén)
Hello,
I am having troubles with ral(4) (A-Link WL54PC, which should be a
Ralink RT2661 chipset): when doing an ifconfig up or anything similar,
I just get a `ral0: device timeout', which according to the man page
should not happen. Occasionally, the computer locks up completely
when the card is attached -- a power reset seems to be the only way
out. This is under macppc/4.99.1. I have never used the card before,
so there might simply be a hardware problem. Does anybody else see
this problem?

I have tested a RT2661 on macppc without any problems. Can you enable
RAL_DEBUG on sys/dev/ic/rt2661.c and post the results ?

Post by johan.wallen+ (Johan Wallén)
One other issue: does anybody have recommendations for good cardbus
IEEE802.11(b/)g devices that are widely available and work well under
NetBSD (or that are well documented) without using binary firmware
blobs (I do not want to bring up the `blobs are evil' debate -- I just
thought that if I buy a card, I could vote with my money at the same
time).

The older ral's RT256x have no binary blobs.

-- Rui Paulo



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[Rui Paulo]

Post by Rui Paulo
I have tested a RT2661 on macppc without any problems. Can you enable
RAL_DEBUG on sys/dev/ic/rt2661.c and post the results ?

BTW, also set rt2661_debug variable to 15.

-- Rui Paulo



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