Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:39:56 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Cc: resonant evil <air.lightz@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi all.. Novice user having woes getting Atheros card up in FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <43D979EC.2050502@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <200601262024.05271.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <1b62a7390601261653j4c54bfddp9db43a5ce59e862c@mail.gmail.com> <200601262024.05271.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 07:53 pm, resonant evil wrote: >> So I rebooted, and the new kernel booted no problem. However when >> the system was starting up and all of the text was flashing by I >> still saw no sign of an ath0 device.. So I logged in and tried >> doing a 'kldload if_ath' and it said "File already exists" so I >> thought that meant it was loaded.. Just for fun I tried a 'ifconfig >> ath0 up' but that just spit out "ifconfig: interface ath0 does not >> exist" and now I'm really starting to get nervous :( > > This card seems to have newer chipset and I heard the following patch > supports newer chipsets: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?439E1030.1080304 > > However, I don't think this patch applies to 6.X. Correct. The hal in cvs doesn't support the chip; only the one out for test. I've merged all the net80211-related changes but the ath patch is now out of date. I'll regenerate it and post a note when it's ready. Sam
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