From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 3 18:40:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B6916A41F; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:40:58 +0000 (GMT) (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 B9E7443D8E; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:40:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.200] ([10.0.0.200]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jB3IeqXq097194 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <4391E6D2.6050400@errno.com> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:41:22 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051126) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <20051203110534.N98873@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20051203110534.N98873@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brief Report: IBM/Lenovo z60t notebook with FreeBSD [new ath hal] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:40:59 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > > After chatting with Sam Leffler, and being a bit puzzled about the exact > failure mode I was seeing, we concluded I should apply his most recent > atheros and 802.11 patches, and update to the latest HAL. Once I did > this, all was well. I don't know what Sam's plans for merging these is, > but they're what you need. I did not try the new HAL with the old > 802.11 code and driver. The new hal will not work with the existing code in cvs--that's why you need the patches :) I don't intend to commit this hal. There's not been enough feedback and it's already several months out of date (i.e. there are fixes that I want to include in any new hal I commit). That said, the hal is definitely an improvement over what's in cvs and folks should see no regression from using it--so long as the also apply the ath+net80211 patches. Sam