Wireless networking question

[Chip Camden]

On Apr 25 2010 22:15, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> 
> Let me preface my commentary with "I'm way out of my league", so #include
> disclaimer.h and all that ...
> 
> For starters, in re: above, didn't someone suggest "libpciaccess" as the
> source for "scanpci"?  I can't tell if you are misunderstanding what S
> Roberts suggested, or I am misunderstanding what you are responding.
> 
> I'm pretty sure there's some misunderstanding here, though.

Thanks for your response, Kevin.  I did try rebuilding libpciaccess, to
no avail.  I also searched elsewhere.
> 
> I thought we had pciconf output that stated it was an Atheros chipset?
> In that case, it would be the Azurewave, right?  I'd suspect it might
> be supported under ath(4), but you'd wanna read the manpage and possibly
> even the source for any kind of confirmation on that; the manpage does
> specifically say that adapters based on the AR5005VL aren't supported.
> However, the manpage might be slightly out-of-date, also.

Yes, pciconf says Atheros.  I guess that does rule out Intel, and I see
from a little searching that at least some Azurewave devices use an
Atheros chipset.  I, too, am a little out of my depth in this region,
as is probably obvious from my posts.
> 
> The other thing I recall seeing is that a new variant of a supported
> chipset comes out, and the driver code doesn't recognize it even though
> it might work well.  Used to be something like a VENDOR_ID string in
> the source files; I don't know if it's still the case, but if it was,
> some people have been able to hack their own device support in rare
> cases simply by adding the new info to the driver file and recompiling
> it, but you'd want someone with a lot more $OS_foo than I have to help
> out with that (or tell you if it's even possible).  This is open-source
> stuff; you might even get sam@ 's attention and get help from the writer
> himself if you're wearing your lucky sneakers.
> 
Yes, I've seen that done with video drivers.  Perhaps I'll give it a go
with the ath or uath driver, neither of which work for me out of the box
(so to speak).

Thanks again.

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