Atheros wireless interface not working

[Sreenath Battalahalli]

Though the documentation that came with the laptop does not say anything,
the data sheet of the model on Amazon does say it is 802.11ac.

-Sreenath

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On Sat, 9/12/15, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Atheros wireless interface not working
 To: "Sreenath Battalahalli" <sreenathbh at rocketmail.com>
 Cc: "freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
 Date: Saturday, September 12, 2015, 3:24 PM
 
 Is it the 11ac part?
 
 
 -a
 
 
 On 11 September 2015 at
 23:16, Sreenath Battalahalli
 <sreenathbh at rocketmail.com>
 wrote:
 > Hi
 >
 > I got a new laptop (Acer E5-573) that has
 an atheros wireless adapter.
 > However,
 the driver available with Freebsd 10.2 does not recognise
 the adapter, and I don't see the wlan0 interface.
 >
 > Here are relevant
 lines from
 > $ pciconf -lv
 >
 > none2 at pci0:3:0:0:   
    class=0x028000 card=0x080611ad chip=0x0042168c
 rev=0x30
 > hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     =
 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
 > 
    class      = network
 >
 > dmesg shows one
 following lines for the same device.
 >
 pci3: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
 >
 > any help in getting
 this working appreciated.
 >
 > thanks,
 >
 Sreenath
 >
 >
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