From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 17:24:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5B1A5B; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:24:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5CC8FC14; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so3190519iea.13 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:24:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XHqi7Sx/vcu5dCsdz+9W6WowUjoahzG9aYLorVbcW3Y=; b=RPU6ijIRrl8emyr+TpK/AZe1Xqs0SY5qd0N7NtLnCH7yEYOGp7wI1GS6Z1lhWAjAZd ubqWiJfRg9ErqIFnv6oBx6d7PW0tyZtw/8aAi1bpeUljrMUjR/+BuF+a/Og3pHZuRtz1 l6LLgjZe+bX1hu7mKhylrVyTbKG+54LN01C4jW9eMNbYj3yaBJHSqJg4N5Gktmu3h5M6 teq4ymEdtjP5zhPKuVD/ga2xF4krJnFvwoSnfgo7cGCWaWZ5Yl3PemQsugRxPg0Fkj1c 9mK/AuCmwC5pcwPycIEp3MqvfHVU7hkehfaEZ+ep+uSePzc32sTk6FdEf+0Z5ZP1l+8W s+hA== Received: by 10.50.94.166 with SMTP id dd6mr686015igb.38.1353000277201; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i10sm4052624igb.12.2012.11.15.09.24.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:24:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50A52547.6030402@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:24:23 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: Today's wireless update - TL;DR - please test -HEAD References: <50A49138.3080700@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:24:38 -0000 On 11/15/2012 12:55 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 14 November 2012 22:52, Joshua Isom wrote: >> I recently purchased a wireless card with an AR9380 chipset. I'm wanting to >> try the driver, but would I need to update my whole kernel to -HEAD or just >> the directory to -HEAD and keep the rest as -STABLE? > > I test things out on a combination of HEAD and 9.0-RELEASE / 9-STABLE > with -HEAD net80211/ath. The latter is .. tricky, but doable. > I suggest that testers just run -HEAD unless they know what they're doing. > >> I'm using the system as a home server, low use but 24/7 availability as much >> as possible. How reliable is it currently? > > Everything pre-AR9380 is stable. The HAL code for the AR9380 isn't > open source - I've been committing the non-HAL code to FreeBSD (ie, > reimplementing the driver layer bits) and I'm going though the process > at ${WORK} to get an open source version of the AR9380 HAL. So there's > no real AR9380 support just yet. > > I've had people ask if I'll release a binary AR9380 HAL KLD for > i386/amd64. The short answer (just for the record) is no - I'm not > going down that particular road. :-) > > > > Adrian > So I'm taking it that currently it will not work without the glue that's not yet available? I'm trying to get ndis working, but it's failing to find the device. I can run pciconf -lv and it shows that it's connected.