Atheros AR9287 wlan

[Joao Schim]

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


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-----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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