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

[Miguel Clara]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Want to trade the zenbook for the Acer S3 391? :P

I was acctually considering buying a zenbook and selling this one to
get the If I get a good deal, I want moaaar RAM and this can't have
more than 4G

But seriously now,  the this model should be less than 600$, so its
half the price of the V17 Nitro, I can't buy one but maybe someone
can?

>
> -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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