Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:02:00 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Atheros 9271 Message-ID: <CAJ-VmokEGU_4Gqz8LnDwWov-ephQuDQQ5evav2FW6W3GXrnQWw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <187461.40439.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <CAGQxf0M57kSkx1vSTuEJPPWC-Pp4ANZ=aeZjTudYQiZ57Gw7Cw@mail.gmail.com> <187461.40439.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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THere are a bunch of supported 11n NICS in -HEAD and -10. You should buy a cheap one for now, until someone writes the AR7010/AR9271 driver. -adrian On 19 November 2013 14:53, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: > from Jonas Liepuonius <thinker.lp@gmail.com>: > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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