From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 19 23:02:02 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 2F097826 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:02:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qe0-x235.google.com (mail-qe0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7AA12453 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f53.google.com with SMTP id cy11so5528587qeb.40 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:02:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4WZVM74TTwXyEtlGR8FCRl+XvIZxLOMrXvZ4p1kjRUI=; b=wV1jOqMz7E8ifKnmZuUXnOKucfJ+aHI3CTqN82oGlfoBGcLUco8LoLeRVJsf+CnkEV TC3oRSA8fgIyDtpv2MSd9y8Y6zfbi6Y59IWar4MN/0AVgn5J96l9Ro1Ax74fUU8J7V3r tlwPwLrMSt1cnl2k4AOXySXtR3pX9i/faJvpG1IvDWlo57ZDduNBNrzGPceTUGh7Uqjh LYW5rUJFvjFt3qlMj0Qi3pgz39OpyvEFpyAV2+TKpYb4gyjJtQBnGRh0uOak8W6LyGsk hokgX6FrLljoOuE7mCYsFKFjKISHH4zotUzdif1PrvuEBfG3IeEelX+O9BdiJllWZfUH JZPw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.64.200 with SMTP id f8mr47912386qai.55.1384902121038; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:02:01 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.207.66 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:02:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <187461.40439.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <187461.40439.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:02:00 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: F6Nv1vK3UdXqs27q1dWH7AbkGoU Message-ID: Subject: Re: Atheros 9271 From: Adrian Chadd To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" 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 23:02:02 -0000 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 wrote= : > 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 wi= ll >> mainly be for the Atheros 9271 USB chip. So any comments or ideas or tip= s >> 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 FreeB= SD, I built subversion from pkgsrc on a NetBSD-current amd64 USB-stick inst= allation, and use that successfully. With GPT, NetBSD accesses FreeBSD par= tition with no problem reading disklabels. > > OpenBSD, from live USB (http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/), can't r= ead 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.or= g"