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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2011 22:18:02 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ubiquiti SR71-E (ar9280) support? Or, maybe, other Mini-PCIe high-power WiFi card?
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Checkout from -HEAD:

sys/dev/ath/
sys/modules/ath
sys/modules/ath_pci

Make sure your -8 source is in /usr/src. :)

Go into sys/modules/ath and make ; same with sys/modules/ath_pci &&
make ; then just unload your current if_ath.ko, load if_ath.ko and
if_ath_pci.ko. It should be good to go.


Adrian


On 16 May 2011 22:00, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/05/2011 13:53, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> 2011/5/16 Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>:
>>
>>
>>> Havent got that particular card, I have
>>> ath0@pci0:4:0:0: =A0 =A0class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x10671a3b chip=3D0x002=
a168c
>>> rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
>>> =A0 =A0vendor =A0 =A0 =3D 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>>> =A0 =A0device =A0 =A0 =3D 'Atheros AR5B91 Wireless Network Adapter (000=
1)'
>>> =A0 =A0class =A0 =A0 =A0=3D network
>>>
>>> which says its
>>> (13:23:25 <~>) 0 $ grep 9280 /var/run/dmesg.boot
>>> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on =
pci4
>>> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>>>
>> Would you mind trying the ath driver from -HEAD and see if it's
>> better/worse/same?
>>
>> I'm worried about introducing regressions in the -HEAD ath code. In
>> particular, AR9280/AR9285 was missing complete TX and board
>> calibration code which may have caused some issues like TX distortion.
>> I'd like to make sure those are fixed.
>>
> I'll give it a try when i can but I'm moving house in about 2 weeks so
> life's a little busy just now :)
> Is it =A0enough to just grab the sys/dev/ath =A0directory from -CURRENT,
> drop it in and make the modules or would it be simpler for me to install
> -CURRENT on an external HD for testing?
>
> Thanks,
> Vince
>>
>> Adrian
>
>



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