dhclient issues and atheros 9285 wireless card

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

PLease check the freebsd-wireless archives. I've linked to a forum
post where I explain how to build the -HEAD driver under -8.
(That's how I was doing development.)



Adrian


On 30 May 2011 23:51, ss griffon <ssgriffonuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use FreeBSD 8.2 on my Eee netbook.  I am having issues
> with my atheros 9285 card which seems to be directly related to this
> bug: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149307
>
> I can create my wlan0 device and connect to my router using
> wpa_supplicant.  However, when I try to use dhclient to get an ip
> addr, it doesn't seem to be able to communicate with the router.  I
> have also tried to set a static IP addr and ping the router but that
> did not work.  dmesg reports multiple 'bb hang detected 0x80' errors.
> I'm almost positive that this card worked in previous versions of
> FreeBSD.
>
> I haven't yet tried to update to the freebsd-current as mentioned in
> the bug report, but I will when I get a chance.  Has anybody else
> gotten this card to work?  Are there any known work arounds?  Maybe
> using the windows driver with the ndis wrapper.
>
> I have a bit of Linux kernel development experience and I would be
> happy to help squash this bug.  Just let me know how I can help.
>
> Keep up the good work,
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