Acer 4720Z and Atheros wireless card

[eculp at cloudmaster.info]

Quoting Isaac MacFarlane <spideyfan1972 at gmail.com>:

> Well, I do have a copy of PCBSD already downloaded. If I understand
> correctly that is a branch of the main FreeBSD project. Is that correct? Is
> there any reason why I would go with that over the main FreeBSD project?
> They both look very nice, but I'm not sure which way to go. They seem to
> both support the same software and hardware. Is one more free than the
> other?
AFAIK, there is little difference but I've never used pcbsd although I  
have though about trying it but haven't had time.

I'm copying to the list so that someone with knowledge of PCBSD can  
answer this correctly.

ed
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM, <eculp at cloudmaster.info> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>:
>>
>>  Isaac MacFarlane wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all. I am trying to find a *NIX system that will work with this
>>>> system. Mandriva calls the card an AR5006 and Vista said it was an
>>>> AR5007.
>>>> Vista worked fine for about a month or so, but I have decided I want to
>>>> go
>>>> all free on my systems. Mandriva will work with the card but locks up
>>>> after
>>>> a few hours requiring a restart. Not really acceptable. And it is the
>>>> best I
>>>> found in the Linux world. Would any of the BSD systems work with this
>>>> card?
>>>> Any recommendations would be most appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Isaac MacFarlane
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>>>
>>> I believe this will work if you follow the instructions to build a custom
>>> kernel, as in the eeepc:
>>>
>>> http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD
>>>
>>> However, this will not be the easiest task if you are not familiar with
>>> FreeBSD in general.
>>>
>>
>> As Manolis says, step one would be to install FreeBSD and see if you are
>> confortable with it.  Then once you have it all running you will want to use
>> the link that Manolis sent that I found very interesting but didn't work for
>> the atheros that I have in my Acer amd64x2 so I used a freebsd patch that
>> works beautifully.  When you get to that point, I or I'm sure other more
>> qualified folks, will be glad to give you a hand.
>>
>> good luck,
>>
>> ed
>>
>>
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