Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:58:54 -0700 From: Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?QXNoaXNoIFNodWtsYSDgpIbgpLbgpYDgpLcg4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?= <wahjava.ml@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is 'ath' going to be updated for 7.1-RELEASE ? Message-ID: <48B4526E.8000802@twilley.org> In-Reply-To: <48B44FCA.9070609@freebsd.org> References: <87vdxr9d9y.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <48B42777.1050304@freebsd.org> <48B43D90.8090807@twilley.org> <48B44FCA.9070609@freebsd.org>
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Sam Leffler wrote: > Jack Twilley wrote: >> Sam Leffler wrote: >>> Ashish Shukla आशीष शà¥à¤•à¥à¤² wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if >>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going >>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas :). >>>> >>>> >>> Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to >>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release. >> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus >> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page". I >> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi >> dance. It's getting old. > > The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's > going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing. As to "getting old" > others are free to pitch in to make things happen. I have very little > time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher > priority issues. All I can offer is the ability to test. I do not have the skill necessary to fix this or I would have written a fix and asked for it to be committed. It is amazingly frustrating to know that there is a workaround and to see that others consider this a low priority issue. If not you, then who should I ask about committing the new HAL to HEAD and helping me check out whatever I need to check out to test the fix so the rest of us can have wireless Ethernet working out of the box? Jack. > > Sam > >
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