From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 28 16:12:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3084116A424 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:12:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A21843D66 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:12:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.248] (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k3SGC13o048035 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <44523ED1.3080300@errno.com> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:12:01 -0700 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregers Petersen References: <20060427150655.75D6945042@ptavv.es.net> <4451E41E.5020907@cbs.dk> In-Reply-To: <4451E41E.5020907@cbs.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:12:21 -0000 Gregers Petersen wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:29:01 +0200 > >> I'm afraid that ath is NOT in Generic in 6.0 nor is it in 6.1-RC or >> 6-stable. It's not even in Current. (I'm not sure why this is the case.) >> > > This is not with the intention of causing a dispute or stepping someone > on the toes --> I can only state the personal fact that when I sometime > ago made a clean install of FreeBSD 6 Release and thereafter looked into > the specifics of the generic kernel.conf file the 'ath' driver + 'hal' > was included and I there upon chose to remove the driver(s) from my > kernel file and then recompile a new slimmer kernel. > I have since moved to 6-stable, but with the same kernel.conf file .... > So I'm not able to know what is included in the generic kernel and > generic kernel.conf file of the present 6.1-RC, only what I have > experienced in respect to a 6.0 Release. > There are numerous other very often needed drivers which for not-known > reasons are "missing" in the generic kernel --> but this is somewhat of > a different discussion. > And again; to me this is a mystery situation ?? > ath is not in GENERIC: tubby% pwd /data/freebsd/head/sys tubby% grep ath */conf/GENERIC given all the other wireless nic's there it probably should be added. Sam