The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable

Jason Garrett kingedgar at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 05:32:59 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 22:00, Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 02:38, James Colannino <james at colannino.org> wrote:
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>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset.
>>  I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a patch for the 8.0
>> stable kernel here:
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>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/ar9285_stable_8.diff<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Erpaulo/ar9285_stable_8.diff>
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>> It seems to have worked for some people.  After patching and re-compiling
>> my kernel, it did manage to detect the device on my machine, but
>> unfortunately, I'm unable to scan for networks or associate with my network.
>>  Here's what happens:
>>
>> The machine boots, and I see the ath0 interface when I run ifconfig.  I
>> then run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0' and successfully
>> create wlan0.  However, when I run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 scan', the
>> command doesn't seem to do anything, and I eventually have to CTRL-C it.
>>
>> Has anybody else had this problem?  Is it a known issue?  Maybe I'm doing
>> something wrong?  It was mentioned that testers were needed for this driver,
>> and I'd love to help out if possible.  If anybody wants me to send any
>> additional information, just let me know.
>>
>> Thanks so much everyone!
>>
>> James
>>
>>  Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but has this driver been committed to
> STABLE yet, or do we still need to apply the patch? I am about to embark on
> installing FreeBSD on this exact model with the exact wifi chip.
>

Also CC'ing rpaulo@ to have his input.

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