I have a Ralink RT3953 based wireless card. It's a mini PCIe based card that supports 3x3 MIMO and 5GHz operation. The card gets detected and I can run "ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ral0". But as soon as I try to bring up the interface, the system freezes. The last log message (when booted in verbose mode) is firmware: 'rt2860fw' version 0: 8192 bytes loaded at 0x... Unfortunately there is no log entry and no crash dump. At least I could not find any log or further info relating to this crash. This happens on two totally different (AMD/Intel based) systems, albeit with the same card. I booted Linux on one of the systems to confirm it's not a HW issue -- the card works on Linux. Two observations that may or may not be related to this particular problem: - The kernel tells me the 11b/g (i.e. 2.4GHz) rates this card supports but there is no mention of a/n (which the card certainly supports). - Linux does not seem to load any firmware for that card. Linux tells you via dmesg when FW gets loaded -- but there is only an entry for the ethernet NIC, not for the wireless card. Initially I encountered this problem with pfSense but was able to reproduce it on vanilla FreeBSD 12.3 and 13.1. See [1] for my initial question on the pfSense forums. Thanks Philipp [1] https://forum.netgate.com/topic/174092/ralink-rt3593-freezes-system
Typo: the chip is called RT3593, _not_ RT3953. Sorry
Can you add the output of pciconf -lv for the card?
(In reply to Bjoern A. Zeeb from comment #2) # pciconf -lv [...] ral0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x35931814 chip=0x35931814 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ralink corp.' class = network This is on pfSense 2.6.0.