Today's wireless update - TL;DR - please test -HEAD

[Joshua Isom]

On 11/15/2012 12:55 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 22:52, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recently purchased a wireless card with an AR9380 chipset.  I'm wanting to
>> try the driver, but would I need to update my whole kernel to -HEAD or just
>> the directory to -HEAD and keep the rest as -STABLE?
>
> I test things out on a combination of HEAD and 9.0-RELEASE / 9-STABLE
> with -HEAD net80211/ath. The latter is .. tricky, but doable.
> I suggest that testers just run -HEAD unless they know what they're doing.
>
>> I'm using the system as a home server, low use but 24/7 availability as much
>> as possible.  How reliable is it currently?
>
> Everything pre-AR9380 is stable. The HAL code for the AR9380 isn't
> open source - I've been committing the non-HAL code to FreeBSD (ie,
> reimplementing the driver layer bits) and I'm going though the process
> at ${WORK} to get an open source version of the AR9380 HAL. So there's
> no real AR9380 support just yet.
>
> I've had people ask if I'll release a binary AR9380 HAL KLD for
> i386/amd64. The short answer (just for the record) is no - I'm not
> going down that particular road. :-)
>
>
>
> Adrian
>

So I'm taking it that currently it will not work without the glue that's 
not yet available?

I'm trying to get ndis working, but it's failing to find the device.  I 
can run pciconf -lv and it shows that it's connected.