Greetings,
csup'd today:
I am using ral0 to setup a wireless access point.
Whenever my laptop searches for my AP I get "ral0: device timeout" I
read in the man pages that this should not happen. However, I have
been running an AP since RELENG_6 was formed and I have never had any
issues with it.
#pciconf
ral0@pci0:0:13:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00321737
chip=0x02011814 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Ralink Technology, Corp'
device = '0x03011814 Zonet ZEW1601 (Ralink Chipset) 802.11b/
g WLAN Card'
class = network
cap 01[40] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0
#cat /root/kernels/GENERIC2
# GENERIC2 -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386
cpu I486_CPU
cpu I586_CPU
cpu I686_CPU
ident GENERIC2
options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread
preemption
options INET # InterNETworking
options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols
options SCTP # Stream Control Transmission
Protocol
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates
support
options UFS_ACL # Support for access control
lists
options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big
directories
options UFS_GJOURNAL # Enable gjournal-based UFS
journaling
options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device
options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS # Process filesystem
(requires PSEUDOFS)
options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables.
options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization
options COMPAT_43TTY # BSD 4.3 TTY compat [KEEP
THIS!]
options SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before
probing SCSI
options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-
time extensions
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive.
options STOP_NMI # Stop CPUS using NMI instead
of IPI
options AUDIT # Security event auditing
device apic # I/O APIC
device pci
device fdc
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device ataraid # ATA RAID drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer
device vga # VGA video card driver
device agp # support several AGP chipsets
device pmtimer
device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
device uart # Generic UART driver
device sk # SysKonnect SK-984x & SK-982x
gigabit Ethernet
device wlan # 802.11 support
device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support
device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support
device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support
device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm
device wlan_scan_ap # 802.11 AP mode scanning
device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning
device ral # Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless
NICs.
device loop # Network loopback
device random # Entropy device
device ether # Ethernet support
device sl # Kernel SLIP
device ppp # Kernel PPP
device tun # Packet tunnel.
device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device md # Memory "disks"
device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
device firmware # firmware assist module
device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
#dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #3: Thu Oct 25 14:20:12 EDT 2007
root@nixnixnix.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC2
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (501.14-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12
Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX>
AMD Features=0x80000800<SYSCALL,3DNow!>
real memory = 266272768 (253 MB)
avail memory = 251076608 (239 MB)
wlan: mac acl policy registered
kbd1 at kbdmux0
K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
acpi0: <GBT AWRDACPI> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 100000, fcf0000 (3) failed
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x5008-0x500b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff,0x480-0x48f,
0x5000-0x5041 on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib0: no PRT entry for 0.0.INTA
agp0: <SiS 530 host to AGP bridge> on hostb0
atapci0: <SiS 530 UDMA66 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x4000-0x400f irq 14 at device
0.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pci0: <unknown> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 1.2 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xc000-0xc07f mem
0xe2000000-0xe27fffff,0xe2c00000-0xe2c0ffff at device 0.0 on pci1
skc0: <D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem
0xe2d04000-0xe2d07fff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0
skc0: DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter rev. (0x9)
sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
sk0: Ethernet address: XX:XX:5b:XX:XX:XX
miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY> PHY 0 on miibus0
e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
skc0: [ITHREAD]
skc1: <D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem
0xe2d00000-0xe2d03fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
skc1: DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter rev. (0x9)
sk1: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc1
sk1: Ethernet address: XX:19:XX:6a:2f:XX
miibus1: <MII bus> on sk1
e1000phy1: <Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY> PHY 0 on miibus1
e1000phy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
skc1: [ITHREAD]
ral0: <Ralink Technology RT2560> mem 0xe2d08000-0xe2d09fff irq 12 at
device 13.0 on pci0
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525
ral0: Ethernet address: XX:12:XX:XX:XX:XX
ral0: [ITHREAD]
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
acpi0
fdc0: [FILTER]
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10
on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A, console
sio0: [FILTER]
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
sio1: [FILTER]
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x100>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 501139932 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 29311MB <Maxtor 4W030H2 AAH41310> at ata0-master UDMA66
acd0: CDRW <R/RW 4x4x32/C1.7> at ata1-master PIO4
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
Loading configuration files.
kernel dumps on /dev/ad0s1b
Entropy harvesting:
interrupts
ethernet
point_to_point
kickstart
.
swapon: adding /dev/ad0s1b as swap device
Starting file system checks:
/dev/ad0s1a: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1a: clean, 153181 free (7253 frags, 18241 blocks, 2.9%
fragmentation)
/dev/ad0s1e: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1e: clean, 248240 free (80 frags, 31020 blocks, 0.0%
fragmentation)
/dev/ad0s1f: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1f: clean, 10470226 free (146002 frags, 1290528 blocks, 1.1%
fragmentation)
/dev/ad0s1d: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1d: clean, 495135 free (16031 frags, 59888 blocks, 2.6%
fragmentation)
Setting hostuuid: 9a553a70-82b3-11dc-b362-00195b6a1fa8.
Setting hostid: 0x33fb7eb8.
Mounting local file systems:
.
Setting hostname: nixnixnix.local.
net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal:
1
->
0
net.inet.tcp.blackhole:
0
->
2
net.inet.udp.blackhole:
0
->
1
net.inet.ip.forwarding:
0
->
1
net.inet.ip.fastforwarding:
0
->
1
bridge0: Ethernet address: c6:84:59:5c:1e:dc
sk1: no link ...
.
got link
DHCPREQUEST on sk1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -- renewal in 300 seconds.
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
sk0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether XX:XX:5b:XX:XX:XX
inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
status: active
sk1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1500
options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
ether XX:19:XX:6a:2f:XX
inet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 76.247.157.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1500
ether XX:12:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet 192.168.2.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect <hostap>)
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g)
authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 14 roam:rate11g 5
protmode CTS bintval 100
bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
mtu 1500
ether c6:84:59:5c:1e:dc
id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
member: sk0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
Enabling pf.
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
pf enabled
Additional routing options:
IP gateway=YES
.
Starting devd.
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest:
C1
->
C1
Additional IP options:
.
Mounting NFS file systems:
.
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/
local/lib/compat/pkg
a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout
Creating and/or trimming log files:
.
Starting syslogd.
Checking for core dump on /dev/ad0s1b...
savecore: no dumps found
Initial i386 initialization:
.
Additional ABI support:
.
Starting named.
Oct 25 15:29:36 nixnixnix named[726]: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: NS
'localhost.0.in-addr.arpa' has no address records (A or AAAA)
Oct 25 15:29:36 nixnixnix named[726]: zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: NS
'localhost.255.in-addr.arpa' has no address records (A or AAAA)
Setting date via ntp.
25 Oct 15:29:38 ntpdate[731]: step time server 67.159.5.116 offset
-1.894423 sec
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Starting local daemons:
.
Updating motd
.
Mounting late file systems:
.
Starting ntpd.
Starting usbd.
usb: Kernel module not available: No such file or directory
Configuring syscons:
blanktime
.
Starting sshd.
Starting cron.
Local package initialization:
.
Starting hostapd.
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.
Thu Oct 25 15:29:47 EDT 2007
Oct 25 15:29:56 nixnixnix login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyd0
#cat /etc/hostapd.conf
cat /etc/hostapd.conf
interface=ral0
driver=bsd
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=0
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=0
debug=4
dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ssid=NIX
wpa=1
wpa_passphrase=test
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
# ifconfig ral0
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
2290
ether XX:12:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet 192.168.2.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap>
(autoselect <hostap>)
status: associated
ssid NIX channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid XX:12:XX:XX:XX:XX
authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP
3:128-bit
txpowmax 100 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 14 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS
dtimperiod 1 bintval 100
Thanks!