Solved - Atheros AR9285 on FreeBSD-8 [WAS: Re: Wireless networking question]

[S Roberts]

Hello Chip,

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:03:21 -0700
Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:

> On Apr 30 2010 13:39, S Roberts wrote:
> > Hello Chip,
> >       Good to hear from you..,
> > 
> > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700
> > Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote:
> > > > > More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf
> > > > > -vl:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > none3 at pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b
> > > > > chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Atheros
> > > > > Communications Inc.' class      = network
> > > > 
> > > > >From here:
> > > > http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=174
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It looks like someone has already patched 8.0-STABLE:
> > > 
> > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6310&highlight=Atheros+AR9285
> > > 
> > > The link to the .diff file 404's now, though.  How can I get a
> > > copy?
> > > 
> > > Or maybe I should just upgrade to STABLE?
> > > 
> > 
> > Well.., personally, I'd ping the patch author to confirm, but "Yes",
> > bumping to next STABLE would be the preferred option myself..,
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > S Roberts
> 
> Just for closure:  upgrading to 8.0-STABLE went smoothly, and the
> wireless device works!
> 

Excellent - good to hear you got it all working.

For posterity, I've updated the Subject Line so that others may benefit
from this..,

Regards,

S Roberts

> Thanks for the help.
>