From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 01:40:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906F816A420; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:40:46 +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 3D1AA43D7E; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:40:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.199] ([10.0.0.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k0R1eio7074627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:40:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <43D979EC.2050502@errno.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:39:56 -0800 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jung-uk Kim References: <1b62a7390601261653j4c54bfddp9db43a5ce59e862c@mail.gmail.com> <200601262024.05271.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200601262024.05271.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: resonant evil , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi all.. Novice user having woes getting Atheros card up in FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:40:46 -0000 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