Atheros 9271

[Thomas Mueller]

from Jonas Liepuonius <thinker.lp at gmail.com>:

> So I have been thinking about starting driver development in FreeBSD. So I
> thought about porting some drivers from linux as a starting point. It will
> mainly be for the Atheros 9271 USB chip. So any comments or ideas or tips
> are welcome :)
 
> --
> Pagarbiai,
> Jonas

I have MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard with onboard AR9271 quasi-USB chip and would be glad to be a tester on FreeBSD-current.

Bug in re driver makes this particular version of Realtek 8111E Ethernet not work in FreeBSD or OpenBSD as of 5.3, but good in NetBSD-current amd64 and Linux.

I notice NetBSD and OpenBSD have athn driver which includes AR9271.  

On how I update FreeBSD source tree with no Internet access through FreeBSD, I built subversion from pkgsrc on a NetBSD-current amd64 USB-stick installation, and use that successfully.  With GPT, NetBSD accesses FreeBSD partition with no problem reading disklabels.

OpenBSD, from live USB (http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/), can't read my hard drive at all, due to lack of GPT support.

Tom