From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 11:28:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36381065670 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:28:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from milu@dat.pl) Received: from jab.dat.pl (dat.pl [80.51.155.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9281B8FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:27:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jab.dat.pl (jsrv.dat.pl [127.0.0.1]) by jab.dat.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986F660; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:27:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dat.pl Received: from jab.dat.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by jab.dat.pl (jab.dat.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id jT1anrOpqUbn; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:27:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snifi.laptop (snifi.laptop [10.0.10.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jab.dat.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC27627; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:27:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Maciej Milewski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:28:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.6.5; amd64; ; ) References: <60375.1310608922@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110714042559.217d0d34.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110714042559.217d0d34.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107141328.00565.milu@dat.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: atheros 9285 wifi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:28:00 -0000 On czwartek, 14 lipca 2011 04:25:59 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:02:02 +1000, freebsd- questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: > > So are you saying I can't just grab the ath module? > > Depends. Maybe a newer version of the module requires a more > recent version of the kernel, because a new interface or > function was added... > > > I'd rather stick to release, but I guess if I'm having to rebuild the > > kernel each update... > > You _can_ try to just compile (1st step) and load (2nd step) > the module with the RELEASE kernel, but it's not guaranteed > to work. Both steps may require updates in sources or in the > running kernel as illustrated above. You may try to get ath driver from -HEAD and compile it with your RELENG_8 tree[1]. There are many fixes for this chipset in the -HEAD. The coming 9 will have it(I don't know the timeframe for the release though) [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2011-May/000224.html Maciej