HP G7-1272NR wireless lan not detected

[kmoore134]

I think its the rt2870 here discussed on this thread:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7010

If you do kldload "if_ral" does it give it a device name in "ifconfig"?

[premjan]

re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING ,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 10:1f:74:b4:66:5b
inet6 fe80::121f:74ff:feb4:665b%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

[premjan]

RT5390
is the device name

[kmoore134]

Looks like that is still an unsupported device:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28069

Hopefully the driver is updated soon, and we get support in 9.1 / 9.2.