Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Support

[Derrick Edwards]

On Tuesday, September 04, 2012 12:56:13 PM YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 07:36:13AM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> > 	Hi,
> > 
> > I purchased a Toshiba Satellite P875-S7200. I can not use the onboard
> > ethernet port because there is not a driver associated with it. I was
> > wondering if an driver was forthcoming supporting the subject chipsets.
> > Also, are there any work arounds.
> 
> I was told that Qualcomm Atheros is working on writing driver for
> FreeBSD so it would be available in future. I don't know ETA
> though.
> 
> > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Sep  2 06:02:47 EDT 2012
> > 
> > 
> > none2 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0xff1e1179 chip=0x10901969
> > rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> > 
> >     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications'
> >     class      = network
> >     subclass   = ethernet 
> >     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb8600000, size 262144,
> >     enabled bar   [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x2000, size 128,
> >     enabled cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D3  current D0
> >     cap 10[58] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(4096) link x1(x1)
> >     cap 05[c0] = MSI supports 16 messages, 64 bit, vector masks
> >     cap 11[d8] = MSI-X supports 16 messages in map 0x10
> > 
> > ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected
> > ecap 0003[180] = Serial 1 ff262ff500266cff
> > 
> > V/r
> > Derrick

Thanks for the update. That is good news.