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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:03:38 +0200
From:      Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh@redwerk.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Atheros WIFI is not recognized on FreeBSD 8.0-RC1
Message-ID:  <20091216180338.GA75403@office.redwerk.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091003110914.GB71004@office.redwerk.com>
References:  <20091003110914.GB71004@office.redwerk.com>

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On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 02:09:14PM +0300, Eugene Dzhurinsky wrote:
> Hi there!
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> I am facing some strange issue with recognizing the wifi card on my ASUS =
K40IN
> laptop.
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> pciconf -lv shows me the following:
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> none5@pci0:5:0:0:	class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x10891a3b chip=3D0x002b168c re=
v=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
>     vendor     =3D 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     class      =3D network
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> On wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee#head-47f2e69f1dd87ec8920929c=
ef682552933095ce6
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> there is the statement:
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> Wireless Atheros 9285 (supported in 8.0 only?) class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x=
10891a3b chip=3D0x002b168c rev=3D0xc0 hdr=3D0x00=20
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> the only difference is in "rev" property - 0x01 !=3D 0xc0
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> The question is - is it possible to change something in the sources of ke=
rnel
> so the card will be recognized? And can somebody please explain what I sh=
ould
> to try out?

Hi again! I updated to 8.0 stable - but the Atheros card still not recogniz=
ed
:(

Can somebody please elucidate - are there any plans for supporting this dev=
ice
in FreeBSD?

Thank you in advance!

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Eugene N Dzhurinsky

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