Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:36:19 -0400 From: Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: AR9280 Message-ID: <4A0C3A73.1030304@altadena.net>
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I have a new laptop that came with a Ralink N card that wasn't supported in either Fedora or FreeBSD; I substituted an Atheros card (boy, these things are getting cheap nowadays - ABGN for $53) (the antennas don't appear to handle A very well, not like my old sony, but they do handle it). It works fine in Fedora 10 and I got it partly because grepping the source for 9280 showed what appeared to be support in FBSD. However (7.2-stable sup'd yesterday) there are a few files still missing. Is there a way to get the rest of this driver? (like in HEAD, maybe, if it is compatible enough?) Sam - I can do some debugging but don't have time for a lot, so if things are "almost" finished it is probably OK. (I do linux device drivers at work so can handle generic kernel debugging, though I'm not too familiar with fbsd locking in its current incarnation (linux is missing some things like recursive locks that I'd want, and is starting to use rcu for read/write locking; I don't know about fbsd...) Both of the networks I normally access are WPA2; one PSK and the other PEAP. The linux driver handles the PEAP and I haven't tried it with the PSK network yet. Can't try vista due to a grub malfunction :-( (it handles bsd fine, and of course fedora also but just reboots when you try vista. It's nice to have a laptop with enough disk to triple-boot.) -- Pete
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