Ralink RT5370 adapter driver doesn't work

[Haiker]

Ralink RT5370 adapter (Tenda W311Ma) doesn't work for me in Haiku nightly hrev51774. After connecting the adapter to my PC it does not detect automatically. When I executing

ifconfig -a

from the terminal, there are only ethernet and loobback devices:

/dev/net/via_rhine/0
Hardware type: Ethernet, Address: 00:0e:a6:33:75:7e
Media type: 100 MBit, 100BASE-TX
inet addr: 192.168.0.100, Bcast: 192.168.0.255, Mask: 255.255.255.0
MTU: 1500, Metric: 0, up broadcast link auto-configured
Receive: 8159 packets, 0 errors, 8362934 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped
Transmit: 7858 packets, 0 errors, 1835763 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped
Collisions: 0
loop    Hardware type: Local Loopback, Address: none
        inet addr: 127.0.0.1, Mask: 255.0.0.0
        inet6 addr: ::1, Prefix Length: 128
        MTU: 16384, Metric: 0, up loopback link
        Receive: 0 packets, 0 errors, 0 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped
        Transmit: 0 packets, 0 errors, 0 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped
        Collisions: 0

In listdev my adapter is not listed:

device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3065: VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II]

device Multimedia controller (Multimedia audio controller) [4|1|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3059: VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller

device Mass storage controller (IDE interface) [1|1|8a]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 0571: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE

device Bridge (ISA bridge) [6|1|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3177: VT8235 ISA Bridge

device Serial bus controller (USB controller, EHCI) [c|3|20]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3104: USB 2.0

device Serial bus controller (USB controller, UHCI) [c|3|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3038: VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller

device Serial bus controller (USB controller, UHCI) [c|3|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3038: VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller

device Serial bus controller (USB controller, UHCI) [c|3|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3038: VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller

device Communication controller [7|80|0]
  vendor 11c1: LSI Corporation
  device 044c: LT WinModem

device Display controller [3|80|0]
  vendor 1002: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
  device 4e71: RV350/M10 [Mobility Radeon 9600] (Secondary)

device Display controller (VGA compatible controller, VGA controller) [3|0|0]
  vendor 1002: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
  device 4e51: RV350 [Radeon 9550/9600/X1050 Series]

device Bridge (PCI bridge, Normal decode) [6|4|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device b198: VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge

device Bridge (Host bridge) [6|0|0]
  vendor 1106: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  device 3189: VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge

But in listusb it is listed correctly:

09da:000a /dev/bus/usb/0/0 "A4Tech Co., Ltd." "Optical Mouse Opto 510D / OP-620D" ver. 0623
1c4f:0002 /dev/bus/usb/0/1 "SiGma Micro" "Keyboard TRACER Gamma Ivory" ver. 0110
0000:0000 /dev/bus/usb/0/hub "HAIKU Inc." "UHCI RootHub" ver. 0110
0000:0000 /dev/bus/usb/1/hub "HAIKU Inc." "UHCI RootHub" ver. 0110
0000:0000 /dev/bus/usb/2/hub "HAIKU Inc." "UHCI RootHub" ver. 0110
148f:5370 /dev/bus/usb/3/2 "Ralink Technology, Corp." "RT5370 Wireless Adapter" ver. 0101
0951:1689 /dev/bus/usb/3/3 "Kingston Technology" "DataTraveler SE9" ver. 0100
0000:0000 /dev/bus/usb/3/hub "HAIKU Inc." "EHCI RootHub" ver. 0200

This adapter also is supported in FreeBSD by the "run" driver: ​https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=run&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.3-stable&arch=default&format=html and it was included in that since 8.1 release: ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers#FreeBSD And there is 3rdparty port probably of this driver for Haiku, which supports the same chipsets as that driver (rt2870 and rt3070, rt5370 is listed in FreeBSD list too): ​https://github.com/jackburton79/haiku_ralink_usb I tried to compile and install it from that sources by make and make install commands, previously worte to makefile

DRIVER_PATH = net/

and

INSTALL_DIR = /boot/system/non-packaged/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin

Also I made a symlink on it in /dev/net. But after installing the driver and reboot there is the same situation. When I try to up /dev/net/ralink_usb/0 by ifconfig, there is an error "no such device". So is it possible to get working this driver in Haiku?

[diver]

My guess is that haiku_ralink_usb is incomplete.

[pulkomandy]

There is probably a good reason this driver wasn't integrated in Haiku. And indeed, it is currently not possible to write a wifi driver for an USB device on Haiku.

The reason is you either write a native-style driver, and can support USB. Or, you write a FreeBSD style driver, and can support Wifi.

There is a GSoC project idea about adding USB to the FreeBSD compatibility layer to make this possible.

[jackburton]

I stopped developing that driver since I don't have the hardware anymore, and the work to fully integrate it with the Haiku wifi stack was too much for me, anyway.

[Haiker]

I have needed hardware (adapter), so maybe I can help you or another developer to test the driver?

[nielx]

Remove milestone for tickets with status = closed and resolution != fixed