On Saturday, 12. March 2005 03:28, Geraghty, Dewayne wrote:
> Has anyone performed an Atheros wireless port to 4.11.
>
> I noted the ath chip is described in the 5.3 man page with a version date
> of 4.11.  Consequently I purchased two atheros wireless devices, and
> upgraded my 4.8 boxes to 4.11.  Unfortunately there is no Atheros (if_ath)
> support in 4.11.  (My purchase decision was based on the 5.3 man page. 
> Silly me)
>
> Also I've noted that the if_rl code has been updated and submitted for 5.4.
> Can someone please point me to the incarnation to pull this code, so I can
> install it on my 4.x series.

Backports of device drivers to FreeBSD 4 are, in general, very VERY unlikely 
(FreeBSD 4 is a dead-end branch now) and nontrivial to do due the massive 
differences between FreeBSD 5 and FreeBSD 4.

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