Atheros AR9460 and Acer Aspire V17 Nitro on FreeBSD 11 not working

[Adrian Chadd]

If I had to hazard a guess, it's either:

* a verison of the NIC that has some funky support that I haven't seen
yet, and I have to port from ath9k, and/or
* it has rfkill enabled by default somehow, and I have to go fix that.

I know these are expensive, but this is what it's like doing hardware.
:) Matt Dillon @ DragonflyBSD bought me the Asus zenbook so I could
fix the wifi there, and that's why the zenbook works great now.


-adrian


On 6 June 2015 at 08:29, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara at gmail.com> wrote:
> This the same card I have on a Acer S3 391 (which would be much
> cheaper for you Adrian, in case anyone wants to buy you one with this
> cards  sadly I don't have the money)
>
> Anyway I see this issue but not always and there was a time where it
> worked fine, (I've mailled about this before, and I'm not sure if
> there's a PR) list scan seems to work but list only a few networks
> (but I guess this means at some point scan got some results)
> Also, If you know the netwroks detail you can at least add them to
> wpa_supplicant.conf and it works fine for both 2.4 and 5Ghtz.
>
>
> Melhores Cumprimentos // Best Regards
> -----------------------------------------------
> Miguel Clara
> IT - Sys Admin & Developer
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm sorry - it's likely something silly like rfkill, but I'd have to
>> fiddle around with the laptop to make it work. They're unfortunately
>> $1200, so I can't just go and buy one to make it work.
>>
>> If someone's willing to buy me and ship one to me, I'll go figure out
>> what the deal is.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> -adrian
>>
>> On 6 June 2015 at 02:55, Anders Bolt-Evensen <andersbo87 at icloud.com> wrote:
>>> Is there any news regarding an eventual solution to my problems with the
>>> Atheros AR9460 driver not working?
>>>
>>> Over a couple of weeks I ran Ubuntu on this machine, the Atheros driver on
>>> Linux seems to work fine, before I decided to switch back to FreeBSD.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/23/2015 20:02, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No, it's something in the ath driver and ath_hal code.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry, I've been busy debugging other things in my limited spare
>>>> time; I just haven't had the chance to sit down and look at the rfkill
>>>> code. :(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -a
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