Support of Atheros AR8161

[Arto Pekkanen]

No as in not for now. Also see

http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-34040.html

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2012-September/007078.html

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-------- Original message --------
From: "Rashid N. Achilov" <achilov-rn at askd.ru> 
Date:  
To: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org 
Subject: Re: Support of Atheros AR8161 
 
On Monday 01 April 2013, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
> man miibus
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
> 
> There is no hardware support for that chip and you gotta buy a separate
> PCI-E gigabit ethernet NIC; if you do, be sure to check the actual
> chipset on the card to be supported by FreeBSD. The link above will
> help. Good hunting.

Well. What about alx driver, developed by 
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx? Is 
there any, who have tried to install it?
Also. "No hardware support" meant - "no and never" or "no, but probably"?
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