From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 19 22:55:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3125539 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm4-vm9.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm4-vm9.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.114.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AF8123E0 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.196.81.166] by nm4.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Nov 2013 22:53:27 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.158] by tm12.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Nov 2013 22:53:27 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Nov 2013 22:53:27 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1384901607; bh=aN6tAPvM61ycQwI9Kq9U6at7H9TDzVJ+M/a7i6tZqsI=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:Date:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:From:To:CC:References:Subject; b=S/TGQpyTyjp4+EfgckzpxCFzgOwWIpGGIU/eU8N9Tvo089e/5MQxTgaYQQ124Bs5eWlwUU2yFmMMesKPRhkvf0Qp5T4Yh8jQVPhY8gqd4RsntNfVU4P/64JA8ija6rq+a3fmVvd+QM96sPQ5y+hoH+689ot3kTcb1kCIaVoQUKM= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 187461.40439.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <187461.40439.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:53:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: P8aqpYwVM1l.9q2BLHrwWTFAvstmFwuTydSKZ.FBWdRlRsv m4fk86N_uQRB_d8jps.wOQCPxtvbvg3xNo4WLcEXL7EV0ALNi2zcdRkXK3dT soK.TGeQ0qEs4UBIet3shAHKtwWJDUW13z2iM_DcdRjFCo4SAxCQELznJ5EM XTdYCKv0PfDHYaqsjgahflZqj8OGlkRSIzTB3iWhSNXi8CiQlAbHp7pQLh_A LzW3d8gGIIbR87.hVaJFnqD6kZf6aWrFYMhtc0LUSlaf7Y3ae7sHtuKuJK2P Y2iEiBLDcLAVzDKISw2oZgAXI3o.fjqkZG1YnMOl0WPi8CUMLz9ekCwjN11. ZzGIhY4BD7IAnfU7MnNrMW2ZdZ4GZfQnu7XLWdBzMkBJfrGMHCkzh4o5oGMZ .vZggF7u3YbKD5LPzkHXwqye9aQKKXvHp_W9.kPNYz5keQ0I3FPwnfoVmVYi pdtx.xQCrQm1G3IeFg3TdBAUg8SztrZiCv.QE2C0IhexNXzaVkBDKGaYGXsW Hv_irw7u1LdQyJKMcOL9r2Idp1xNC3x9xy60mWti24UtvZk.Hmqg7tuvBehz WGx8Z.32raxrrVtkIVb43bqX3JHnAhETo8tDi4_YZut1pgDj._8w_7_ClkQo EM0_ZdjZCgJ9hmIEadUsdb_6nKZClHh5DEjumZVBTG.RCH8ZVU5gV X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with ) by smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2013 22:53:27 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org References: Subject: Re: Atheros 9271 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:55:22 -0000 from Jonas Liepuonius : > So I have been thinking about starting driver development in FreeBSD. So I > thought about porting some drivers from linux as a starting point. It will > mainly be for the Atheros 9271 USB chip. So any comments or ideas or tips > are welcome :) > -- > Pagarbiai, > Jonas I have MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard with onboard AR9271 quasi-USB chip and would be glad to be a tester on FreeBSD-current. Bug in re driver makes this particular version of Realtek 8111E Ethernet not work in FreeBSD or OpenBSD as of 5.3, but good in NetBSD-current amd64 and Linux. I notice NetBSD and OpenBSD have athn driver which includes AR9271. On how I update FreeBSD source tree with no Internet access through FreeBSD, I built subversion from pkgsrc on a NetBSD-current amd64 USB-stick installation, and use that successfully. With GPT, NetBSD accesses FreeBSD partition with no problem reading disklabels. OpenBSD, from live USB (http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/), can't read my hard drive at all, due to lack of GPT support. Tom