ath9k

[Neil Short]

--- On Wed, 3/24/10, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:

> From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: ath9k
> To: "Neil Short" <neshort at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 3:54 AM
> On 24 Mar 2010, at 01:43, Neil Short
> wrote:
> 
> > Is anybody working on implementing the ath9k wireless
> driver?
> > 
> > Just curious. I have reserved a huge chunk of my hard
> drive on my laptop - in anticipation of FreeBSD supporting
> that device. Using a linux distro in the mean time.
> 
> Several chipsets support by the ath9k driver are supported
> on FreeBSD with the ath(4) driver. Try FreeBSD HEAD or
> 8.0-STABLE.
> 
> --
> Rui Paulo
> 
> 
It looks like mine is  Atheros AR9285 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133. FreeBSD seems to see it; but it fails to connect with it.