Configuring external Wifi adapter to a desktop

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I've Desktop computer running FreeBSD latest version, and I decided to connect it to a local Wifi network. I bought a "D-Link DWA-125 revision A3" Wifi dongle which has Ralink chipset (somewhere i read that generally Ralink chipset is widely supported on FreeBSD) and just connected a to the PC. I see that USB is attached:
Code: 
ugen0.4: <Ralink 11n Adapter> at usbus0

Could you please guide me how to configure it to make Wifi working ?
 
Sorry but i mean that I think the devices is not detected. the dmesg log shows that USB device is attached but nothing after like creating "run0" ..
I made sure if_run module has already loaded with kldstat.

Is there anything I could do ?
 
Then you have to look at the driver documentation or its source that the particular ralink chipset is supported.
To me it already happened that I bought hardware of a particular manufacturer said to be well FreeBSD supported only to finally find out when I read the drivers' source code that just my hardware combination/chipset is not supported. This happens particularly frequently with brand-new chipsets. The situation with sound cards is even worse than that with wifi.
 
This partial listing has been taken from the run driver man page:

D-Link DWA-130 rev B1
D-Link DWA-140 rev B1, B2, B3, D1
D-Link DWA-160 rev B2
D-Link DWA-162

There is no DWA-125 in the list, so it may not be supported. If a driver-listed chipset is used in an adapter, it doesn't mean the adapter will work with the driver, because the vendor can change the ven/prod codes and require different firmware, and/or only support certain functionality, etc.

I have a RA-5370 chipset based adapter, and the adapter model was not on the run driver list, but it works. I was lucky. I'd suggest taking an adapter from the man page list of adapter vendors (instead of just chipset) ...

Do a:
man 4 run | grep D-Link
 
Thanks for replies :)
Yes it was my bad, I thought DWA-125 would be supported too.
Well I've got Edimax Wifi dongle and it just works great :)

Thanks again
 
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