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

[Adrian Chadd]

Yup, there's no AR9300 HAL support yet in the tree, sorry.

If I could commit it right now I would. :)



Adrian


On 17 November 2012 20:57, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 11:41 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>> On 15 November 2012 09:24, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> The glue is available. The HAL isn't available. That's the missing piece.
>>
>> As for NDIS, I haven't ever played with that. Sorry. I'm trying to
>> make the drivers support everything so we don't need NDIS.
>>
>> What's the PCI ID of the chip you're using, and which driver are you
>> trying to use with NDIS?
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>
> I tried doing a mix of ath from -current and the rest from -stable but it
> wouldn't compile because of iwn and other issues.  I tried doing a -current
> generic kernel.  It would kernel panic shortly after getty was started but I
> think that's another issue.  After I got it to not panic, the ath driver
> still wouldn't attach.  Here's the relevant output of pciconf.
>
> none3 at pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x3112168c chip=0x0030168c
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     device     = 'AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor'
>     class      = network
>
> I was trying drivers off the CD I was given by the vendor.  The card is a
> TP-LINK TL-WDN4800.  I tried the XP and Vista drivers, athwx.sys and
> athrx.sys, but neither had any effect.
>
>