Markus Hennecke wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Tom wrote:
I took my RT2860 card (which likes to lock up the Soekris 5501 fairly
quickly), stuck it in an Openbsd 4.5-current (April 27 snap) and it
performed properly and didn't lock up. Mind you, the machine is amd64
and quite well powered. I transferred a lot of files with scp, got
about 1.2 MB/s on a single transfer which isn't that bad considering
there's about 4-5 access points around or in the building.
The caveat on the ral(4) man page:
Some PCI ral adapters seem to strictly require a system supporting
PCI
2.2 or greater and will likely not work in systems based on older
revi-
sions of the PCI specification. Check the board's PCI version
before
purchasing the card.
Does the Soekris net5501-70 support PCI 2.2 or greater? (I couldn't
find anything in the specs or docs of it.)
Is this a PCI or a Mini PCI card? It should not matter, as Mini PCI is
PCI 2.2. I don't see more than one PCI bus in my soekris dmesg, I
would assume that the normal PCI connector is PCI 2.2 as well.
Hi Markus,
It's a PCI card.
ral0 at pci5 dev 9 function 0 "Ralink RT2860" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 18
(irq 11), address <MAC address>
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2860 (rev 0x0101), RF RT2820 (MIMO 2T3R)
Regards,
Tom
