From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 18 09:32:54 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 751A5ADC for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm19-vm2.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm19-vm2.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AFA11A4A for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.196.81.156] by nm19.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Dec 2013 09:26:49 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.99] by tm2.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Dec 2013 09:26:49 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Dec 2013 09:26:49 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1387358809; bh=/w8I42dcFET/ZnLErgvp4JWOO+aFUq5NXwaorJS5JSM=; 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=kto4c6PLUwK8Ecyfb+tbjLxd9zJX+FbIkvwBuIJpjgT7GPLclz1Mej5qwI9/KW2+EJAY9XAddaL8FisEaTpoElznCZyCGv+N0m+AIDqpKPGrBod97hiknd6RKjAqZK92Wm1mFUa3JVkwMFd8zyyJPjl38H59LgQfpGA+cA0DaAo= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 610753.22725.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <610753.22725.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:26:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 56qEfAsVM1mtsusQ1v7gMdAnYv4SklrohXtVeQlC62OeSCX 7T6I5ARt9ZZQT9FsaVG4lZHo_U1KadkW9j5JU93XPFrTWzIAWOIj5G0E5T2S eMQRSWTV_JQdxFFC59uSsobEsjPwQ5JHpKajeDEEYXXbZhEl7DSBHQ_WqLwd OXT9stW.C2DB5UhBUKqQnPZc6Nl5E6y4YM8txuNCypOy3b5NrONSSkFuc1tl 4zhHK9T9GWzTU5.AxRNjp.FIw4daR4GSMb_VOiCM77XbUiZoW.lni8IxW6zO beZ5pVHoggFEjUrCIC7yMMMAPODSxcHUdofYJr4w9s_QlKRfSIn.2xuAB__z HIIaeryHlfgapQ9bz1AUQ0ZSyca_4oU7DmF34bE1QYptVnpjC2NbvEAiTGmn dmi3ZQNxXdmKLNiWnmiQuzvg55kiMxWA0x_8ytkZA3zXfp2AN54am9xJC4tz uuO6U7_XmSpqtbeh.At3UoeuwQKjGCQPvqi9QplBP3Ewh1d41ZTo5yhxrI92 hT14vc90uodUy2hTVW7gFA25Uf6MCo_V5v_.nU1k66nHRZXkVPUWzKJYnNe0 zOgeGbbMGBD_fsrlNcQN1tgj7PI.gS_pqintUSkHkengLfRKn4f90YKaqvdi S6XPo7RJ4hEoxGYs_mImoHtstIB.PIEGrfT7XobkWdhBHPbZRhVC4 X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with plain [98.138.31.74]) by smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2013 09:26:49 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org References: <597989.6329.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Atheros 9271 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 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: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:32:54 -0000 from Adrian Chadd: > THe bit(s) i don't want to really make work mostly involve the USB > stuff. So, if you grab the USB drivers in sys/dev/usb/wlan/ and look > at the netbsd/openbsd athn usb code, that right there is what would be > good to start with. > So, if you or someone could port the initial USB glue - attach, > detach, upload firmware, send commands, receive commands - that'll be > a big help. Now you make me curious why you don't want to work on the USB stuff: you may have a good reason, but I'm still curious. I can look through the source code even when not running NetBSD. NetBSD is much less stable than FreeBSD on my hardware. OpenBSD may possibly be stabler than NetBSD but is more crippled for lack of support for GPT and USB 3.0, meaning my running of OpenBSD is limited to live USB from liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net : plenty of space on sparsely occupied 16 GB USB 2.0 stick, but X and GNOME 3.8.3 don't start. This is the latest version, with OpenBSD 5.4. Earlier I had a kernel crash on FreeBSD 10-stable amd64, from just before RC1 release, preceded by trouble messages from dhclient in connection with rsu. "make buildworld" with TARGET=i386 went through successfully about 25 minutes before the crash, and subsequently I completed the build and installation of FreeBSD 10-stable i386 on 32 GB USB 3.0 stick. I posted a message about that kernel crash on freebsd-stable list, suspect instability in rsu driver, but evidence is not conclusive. I could try to improve by set hint.re.0.disabled="1" at loader prompt to keep the failing re0 out of the way. I once did that, and re0 was conspicuous by its absence from /var/run/dmesg.boot and from the output of running "ifconfig" without parameters. Tom