Atheros AR9287 wlan

[Joao Schim]

Hi again,

I repeated the steps and tried to kldload the modules once again.

kldload ./if_ath.ko
kldload ./if_ath_pci.ko

Same thing happens. poof.  I then removed the addition that i made
earlier to the Makefile. and instead moved the headers and stuff in ~/ath/
over to /usr/src/sys.

Then i rebuild the kernel and now it works just fine..
Looks to me there is some discrepancy between the headers used in the 
~/ath/ modules and those in 8.2-RELEASE's /usr/src/sys . 

But most important of course is the fact that i can browse the web
without a cable now. I will try to test as much as i can and will deliver
the feedback into the -wireless list.

Many thanks for your achievement and support.


Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,

Joao Schim


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-----Original Message-----
From: adrian.chadd at gmail.com on behalf of Adrian Chadd
Sent: Tue 5/31/2011 11:36 AM
To: Joao Schim
Subject: Re: Atheros AR9287 wlan
 
That's weird, I've not seen the kld load occur that way.

Did you load if_ath_pci or if_ath first?
if_ath_pci will auto-load if_ath, which may have loaded your system if_ath. :-)

Instead:

kldload ./if_ath.ko
kldload ./if_ath_pci.ko


On 31 May 2011 16:50, Joao Schim <Joao.Schim at kb.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the link. I have given it a quick try .. and i guess i will give
> it another try tomorrow, since i couldn't get it to work just yet. (didn't have
> much time yet to really get into it)   FYI I'm building on 8.2-RELEASE.
>
> First the build didn't work right away.
> The step mentioned in the forum thread :
>  $ cd ~/ath/head/sys/modules/ath && make
>
> Failed with the message that it could not find some header files. ("dev/ath/ath_hal/ah_diagcodes.h", and others)
> I added -I${.CURDIR}/../../ to the CFLAGS line in the makefile to get it to build.
>
> After that building went just fine. However kldloading after reboot failed miserably
> causing a dump and reboot.
>
> I will drop the summary of the dump in a followup if nescesary but it came down
> to a call to device_get_unit(dev = 0x0) from ath_attach().
>
> I'm guessing that my Makefile modification wasn't all that brilliant ;)
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
>
> Joao Schim
>
>
> --
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: adrian.chadd at gmail.com on behalf of Adrian Chadd
> Sent: Mon 5/30/2011 5:12 PM
> To: Joao Schim
> Cc: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Atheros AR9287 wlan
>
> Hi!
>
> I wrote a quick article in the freebsd forums about it. You can run
> the -HEAD ath driver on -8. It will work in 11bg mode fine.
>
> Please try this and let me know if it works!
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=135929#post135929
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On 30 May 2011 22:24, Joao Schim <Joao.Schim at kb.nl> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> It seems my laptop is equipped with the Atheros AR9287 chip. I would like
>> to support in testing the new driver on my hardware. (TK81 Pack-bell laptop.)
>>
>> Please give me some directions on how to proceed. I guess a switch to -current
>> is the first thing to do ?
>>
>> Thanks for your input.
>>
>> Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
>>
>> Joao Schim
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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