Brief Report: IBM/Lenovo z60t notebook with FreeBSD [new ath
hal]
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Sat Dec 3 10:40:59 PST 2005
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it's already several months out of date (i.e. there are fixes that I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
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