HEADS UP: Atheros HAL merged to RELENG_7

Neal Hogan nealhogan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 11:40:54 PDT 2009


Wondering . . . did you mean 'AR5424', not 'AH5424'?

I'm asking because I have an atheros AR5424 and am (patiently) waiting for
support and can't find info on an atheros AH5424.

Thanks.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This is just a note to let you all know that the open source Atheros HAL
> has been merged from HEAD to -STABLE.
>
> I tested it out OK on an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T43 with an AR5212 in HostAP
> and STA mode, and on an
> ASUS EeePC 701 with AH5424 (PCI-express) in STA mode.
>
> The ath_rate* modules have been removed as kernel modules, however the
> options remain, as these
> are now knobs for the HAL as it gets built into if_ath.ko itself.
>
> Furthermore, the ath_hal module should no longer be required.
>
> regards,
> BMS
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