From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 19:59:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D06616A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C10643D46 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AsZuV-0004E1-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:59:07 +0100 Received: from ppp-62-138.customer.wingnet.net ([206.30.62.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon Feb 16 03:59:07 2004 Received: from jesse by ppp-62-138.customer.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon Feb 16 03:59:07 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:59:04 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <20040215200047.40C4216A4D8@hub.freebsd.org> <40303CFD.3000106@prodigy.net.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-62-138.customer.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: Can the atheros driver be used in FreeBSD 4.9? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:59:08 -0000 Alejandro Valenzuela wrote: > Hi everyone and thanks for reading this > I recently bought an EnGenius a/b/g miniPCI card, which uses the Atheros > chipset. > > I was wondering if it was possible to use the atheros driver in FreeBSD > 4.9, because my laptop doesn't seem to like the 5.2 Release ( gets stuck > before starting sysinstall when I try installing it, as it has > unfortunately done since 5.X ). > > If so, where can I download it? > > If it isn't possible to use the atheros driver, which loader.conf > "switches" would you recommend trying? > I suspect the computer freezes when polling the sound card (it does so > in FreeBSD 4.9), which is in pci1, I believe... Don't know about ath in 4.x, but this is the list of options I usually have to try in 5.x: unset acpi_load set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net