Ubiquiti SR71-E (ar9280) support? Or, maybe, other Mini-PCIe
high-power WiFi card?
Vincent Hoffman
vince at unsane.co.uk
Mon May 16 14:00:15 UTC 2011
On 16/05/2011 13:53, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 2011/5/16 Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk>:
>
>
>> Havent got that particular card, I have
>> ath0 at pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10671a3b chip=0x002a168c
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>> vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>> device = 'Atheros AR5B91 Wireless Network Adapter (0001)'
>> class = network
>>
>> which says its
>> (13:23:25 <~>) 0 $ grep 9280 /var/run/dmesg.boot
>> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
>> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>>
> Would you mind trying the ath driver from -HEAD and see if it's
> better/worse/same?
>
> I'm worried about introducing regressions in the -HEAD ath code. In
> particular, AR9280/AR9285 was missing complete TX and board
> calibration code which may have caused some issues like TX distortion.
> I'd like to make sure those are fixed.
>
I'll give it a try when i can but I'm moving house in about 2 weeks so
life's a little busy just now :)
Is it enough to just grab the sys/dev/ath directory from -CURRENT,
drop it in and make the modules or would it be simpler for me to install
-CURRENT on an external HD for testing?
Thanks,
Vince
>
> Adrian
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