On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:58:59PM +0200, Martin Toft wrote:
> Don't you experience problems with the wireless Ralink RT2790 network
> device? I've had it working in 2-3 boots right after I got the laptop
> and never since. From dmesg:
>
> ral0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Ralink RT2790" rev 0x00: irq 11ral0: timeout
> waiting for NIC to initialize
The following recipe "fixed" the device:
1. Disable wlan in bios.
2. Boot into OpenBSD. The blue led is now off and a ral device is not
found.
3. Enable wlan in bios.
4. Boot into OpenBSD.
Result:
ral0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Ralink RT2790" rev 0x00: irq 11, address
00:15:af:e4:cd:1d
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2872 (rev 0x0200), RF RT2720 (1T2R)
# ifconfig ral0 chan
ral0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:15:af:e4:cd:1d
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1)
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid "" 100dBm
nwid Alisa chan 11 bssid 00:0e:2e:f5:8f:f7 74dB 54M
privacy,short_slottime
nwid mt chan 11 bssid 00:0f:cb:fa:45:98 72dB 54M
privacy,short_preamble,spectrum_mgmt,short_slottime
nwid Baasch chan 3 bssid 00:15:e9:0b:1b:26 72dB 54M
privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime
nwid Lujoba chan 1 bssid 00:1d:0f:e2:51:8a 72dB 54M
privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime
nwid 0x000000000000000000 chan 11 bssid 00:1d:7e:e3:43:b7
72dB 54M privacy,short_slottime
nwid S&A chan 11 bssid 00:21:29:99:8f:6f 70dB 54M
privacy,short_slottime
Martin
