macbook atheros driver in 7-beta2

[Sam Leffler]

brad clawsie wrote:
> hi, i have just put 7-beta2 on a macbook (core 2 duo)
>
> i am looking for advice on the best alternative for wireless support,
> the provided ath driver does not provide support.
>
> sam leffler has a patch here
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20070428.tgz
>
> but i am not sure if this is newer or older than the support in
> 7-beta2
>
> i also see some people are using ndis wrappers with this windows
> driver:
>
> http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=489&sec=0
>
> does anyone have a suggestion for the preferred course of action?
>
> is there any chance of the atheros support being updated prior to
> launch or is the featureset frozen?
>
>   

The private hal build works in legacy mode modulo known issues (many 
people have reported it's good enough for day-to-day use).  It is not 
committed because it has known regressions relative to the hal in CVS 
and I've had no time to resolve those problems.  I hope to work on this 
stuff after 7.0 goes out.

    Sam