Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:23:30 +0200 From: "Henri-Pierre Charles" <hpcharles@gmail.com> To: "Rui Paulo" <rpaulo@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST Message-ID: <4734a3ed0809160223p6ddc6fd5pacb901ea9dfccfe3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4734a3ed0809150659n438a5b20r59278908f4032a45@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080828002919.GA54169@alpha.local> <4734a3ed0809150659n438a5b20r59278908f4032a45@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, (I reply to myself) On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Henri-Pierre Charles <hpcharles@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> wrote: >> We've updated ath_hal in HEAD to 0.10.5.10. This supports a couple of >> new chips, namely those on the Asus Eee PC, MacBooks and other laptops. > > It's included into 8.0-CURRENT-200809-i386 snapshot if I understand correctly. > I've tried 7.1-BETA and 8.0-CURRENT-200809 on my eeepc model 701 > > 7.1 does not recognize ath0, as expected, but 8.0-CURRENT does. > The corresponding dmesg can be found here : > > * http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~hpc/pmwiki/uploads/Data/dmesg-7.1-BETA.txt > * http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~hpc/pmwiki/uploads/Data/dmesg-8.0-200809.txt > > The 8.0-CURRENT-200809-i386 contain ath_hal 0.10.5.10 but I was unable > to use the interface. "dhclient ath0" never give up. Let me know if I > can try something. I discover a "new" way to configure network interface, with wlan I have tried to put in my rc.conf: wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" And .. it works, with a WPA2 configuration and also with only DHCP. Conclusion 8-0-CURRENT-200809 work out of the box for the eeepc 701. The only documentation I have found is http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf . Is there something more substantial ? > And what about the rj45 interface for eee 701 ? Any chance to be supported > in a near future ? Any tips ? H-P -- HPC
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