ath atheros 5424/2424 on the CQ60 Presario

[Kenneth]

Anyone been able to use the ath driver on an atheros 5424/2424?  I have a Compaq Presario CQ60 and can not get the wireless light to turn blue?




-----Original Message-----
>From: Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 13, 2009 7:14 PM
>To: Kenneth <kennethcf at earthlink.net>
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, FreeBSD-x11 at freebsd.org, gesbbb at yahoo.com
>Subject: Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver
>
>Thanks, guys!
>
>I intend to set aside some time late this week to try this.  I bought
>one but have not been able to configure the X environment yet;  I
>notice that PC-BSD comes up fine; I thought of doing that and copying
>the file, but that's about a half day or more of effort that way...
>
>Not good.
>
>Anyway, a couple questions...
>
>Is this likely to be compatible with FBSD 8.0?  Or no, and I will just use 7.2.
>
>--jg
>
>
>On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Kenneth <kennethcf at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Moving this discussion to freebsd-x11.
>>
>> I have a Presario CQ60 with the NVIDIA 8200M G, and X is working!
>>
>> Here are the steps to get there.  Do everything as root:
>>
>> 1) Update your ports to the most recent.  Follow the FreeBSD manual, section 4.5 Using the Ports Collection, nuke the contents of /usr/ports, and install a new base using portsnap or cvsup.
>>
>> 2) Install the nvidia-driver.
>> # cd /usr/ports/x11-driver/nvidia-driver
>> # make install clean  (I built with options FREEBSD_AGP checked, ACPI checked, LINUX unchecked).
>>
>> 3) You can install 2 more optional tools for configuring the nvidia card settings.  I have not used them, but I installed them.
>> # cd /usr/ports/x11-driver/nvidia-settings
>> # make install clean
>> # cd /usr/ports/x11-driver/nvidia-xconfig
>> # make install clean
>>
>> 4) I also installed the fbdev driver from X.Org.
>> # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev
>> # make install clean
>>
>> 5) Add the nvidia driver as a dynamically loaded kernel module.
>> # cd /boot
>> # vi loader.conf  (you better know how to use vi to edit)
>> --- add the line nvidia_load="YES"
>> --- it is the only line I have in my loader.conf file
>>
>> 6) Reboot the system
>> # reboot
>>
>> 7) If you want to see the version you just installed (your versions may be newer than mine below)...
>> # pkg_info | grep nvidia
>> nvidia-driver-185.18.29
>> nvidia-settings-190.32
>> nvidia-xconfig-190.32
>> # pkg_info | grep fbdev
>> xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.0_2
>>
>> 8) Generate your xorg.conf.new file.
>> # cd /root
>> # Xorg -configure
>>
>> 9) Edit the xorg.conf.new file.
>> # vi xorg.conf.new
>> --- change the line    Driver "nv"
>>            to read    Driver "nvidia"
>>
>> 10) Test the config file.
>> # Xorg -config xorg.conf -retro
>> --- you should get a grey screen and your mouse should work, especially if your mouse worked when installing FreeBSD
>> --- to kill the test, press CTRL-ALT-BKSP
>>
>> 11) If everything worked, move and rename (drop the new extension) the config file to the /etc directory
>> # mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>
>> 12) Test again.  Log in as another user belonging to the wheel group (or login as root).
>> % startx
>> --- you should get 3 green windows
>> --- you can kill X by clicking on the large window on the left, and typing exit
>>
>>
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