Hi everyone, I am trying to get my wireless dongle to work. It is this a PAU09. Under Linux, the driver is named RT2800USB, so I think I may have incorrectly assumed that it was the 2800 chipset.
The manual says this:
The run(4) driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2700U, RT2800U, RT3000U and RT3900E chipsets.
But then it goes on to say this:
The RT3900E is a single-chip USB 2.0 802.11n solution. The MAC/Baseband Processor can be an RT3593, RT5390, RT5392 or an RT5592.
dmesg:
ifconfig:
rc.conf:
Is it safe to assume I made a mistake here with this dongle? I know the manual lists supported devices, but I'm having a hard time tracking down where to buy suggested dongles. The revision isn't produced anymore or it's just not being sold. I need a good NIC with range and preferably 5Ghz support. Thanks!
edit:
I am on 11.2 BETA3.
I am looking at RT5370 cards now, a lot less powerful, but since ath10 support is coming from CURRENT, I can get a cheap replacement and wait I suppose, but I still would like to know what is wrong with this card.
The manual says this:
The run(4) driver supports USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2700U, RT2800U, RT3000U and RT3900E chipsets.
But then it goes on to say this:
The RT3900E is a single-chip USB 2.0 802.11n solution. The MAC/Baseband Processor can be an RT3593, RT5390, RT5392 or an RT5592.
dmesg:
Code:
run0: <1.0> on usbus0
run0: MAC/BBP RT5592 (rev 0x0222), RF RT5592 (MIMO 2T2R), address 9c:ef:d5:fd:10:98
run0: firmware RT3071 ver. 0.33 loaded
Code:
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 9c:ef:d5:fd:10:98
hwaddr 9c:ef:d5:fd:10:98
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 48 (5240 MHz 11a)
regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
deftxkey UNDEF txpower 17 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60
wme roaming MANUAL
groups: wlan
Code:
wlans_run0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"Is it safe to assume I made a mistake here with this dongle? I know the manual lists supported devices, but I'm having a hard time tracking down where to buy suggested dongles. The revision isn't produced anymore or it's just not being sold. I need a good NIC with range and preferably 5Ghz support. Thanks!
edit:
I am on 11.2 BETA3.
I am looking at RT5370 cards now, a lot less powerful, but since ath10 support is coming from CURRENT, I can get a cheap replacement and wait I suppose, but I still would like to know what is wrong with this card.
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