From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 16:00:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB81106564A for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 16:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@altadena.net) Received: from kestrel.altadena.net (kestrel.altadena.net [207.136.131.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F428FC22 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 16:00:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@altadena.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=1.kestrel; d=altadena.net; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=cPC7+yOk9ygPYtHSeLCW/S4iCJd/bmIKMDf8mZZKXNdQvN4rf3uQ4zgLrc6iYKsPrA/4hjX5GJES0ew9B05lV0M534mhGaKznbzO5yOdx4USb/Ttri7xSjvbN8aO8UoOab2b8VRxRpaWGO8VkzYhqwmBswH3iABAKBfhTHEm4+Y=; Received: from office.cerona.com ([75.148.25.105] helo=port4.altadena.net) by kestrel.altadena.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M4cyq-000CDf-HG for mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 08:36:20 -0700 Message-ID: <4A0C3A73.1030304@altadena.net> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:36:19 -0400 From: Pete Carah User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mobile@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: AR9280 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:00:16 -0000 I have a new laptop that came with a Ralink N card that wasn't supported in either Fedora or FreeBSD; I substituted an Atheros card (boy, these things are getting cheap nowadays - ABGN for $53) (the antennas don't appear to handle A very well, not like my old sony, but they do handle it). It works fine in Fedora 10 and I got it partly because grepping the source for 9280 showed what appeared to be support in FBSD. However (7.2-stable sup'd yesterday) there are a few files still missing. Is there a way to get the rest of this driver? (like in HEAD, maybe, if it is compatible enough?) Sam - I can do some debugging but don't have time for a lot, so if things are "almost" finished it is probably OK. (I do linux device drivers at work so can handle generic kernel debugging, though I'm not too familiar with fbsd locking in its current incarnation (linux is missing some things like recursive locks that I'd want, and is starting to use rcu for read/write locking; I don't know about fbsd...) Both of the networks I normally access are WPA2; one PSK and the other PEAP. The linux driver handles the PEAP and I haven't tried it with the PSK network yet. Can't try vista due to a grub malfunction :-( (it handles bsd fine, and of course fedora also but just reboots when you try vista. It's nice to have a laptop with enough disk to triple-boot.) -- Pete