From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 15:09:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F0A1065670 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:09:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout6.freenet.de (mout6.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F28E8FC14 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.4.92.19] (helo=9.mx.freenet.de) by mout6.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #92) id 1Mu6FA-0008Ai-4Y; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:09:56 +0200 Received: from tf362.t.pppool.de ([89.55.243.98]:10495 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 9.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #94) id 1Mu6F9-00042F-QN; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:09:56 +0200 Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:09:55 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Eugene Dzhurinsky Message-ID: <20091003170955.0667edba@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20091003110914.GB71004@office.redwerk.com> References: <20091003110914.GB71004@office.redwerk.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.2; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros WIFI is not recognized on FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:09:58 -0000 On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:09:14 +0300 Eugene Dzhurinsky wrote: > Hi there! > > I am facing some strange issue with recognizing the wifi card on my ASUS K40IN > laptop. > > pciconf -lv shows me the following: > > none5@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > class = network > > On wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee#head-47f2e69f1dd87ec8920929cef682552933095ce6 > > there is the statement: > > Wireless Atheros 9285 (supported in 8.0 only?) class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0xc0 hdr=0x00 > > the only difference is in "rev" property - 0x01 != 0xc0 > > The question is - is it possible to change something in the sources of kernel > so the card will be recognized? And can somebody please explain what I should > to try out? > I'm no expert on Atheros. In /sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah_devid.h there's a #define AR9285_DEVID_PCIE 0x002b /* AR9285 PCI-E Kite */ but it isn't used in any C source file. Note that the entry in the Wiki isn't claiming that this chip works. The poster is merely wondering whether it might be supported in 8.0 and later FreeBSD versions. Looks like it isn't. --- Gary Jennejohn