Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:12:01 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa@cbs.dk> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless woes Message-ID: <44523ED1.3080300@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <4451E41E.5020907@cbs.dk> References: <20060427150655.75D6945042@ptavv.es.net> <4451E41E.5020907@cbs.dk>
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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
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