Hi, I'm all for it.
adrian On 6 March 2012 08:06, ss griffon <ssgriffonu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't speak for any of the DFBSD guys, but as we've talked about > before, I've been looking for a good project to learn about and work > with some wireless NICs and 802.11. So if you and the DFBSD guys > don't mind getting bombarded with questions once-in-awhile then I'll > spend some time working on it. I'll get on IRC and talk to you and > the DFBSD guys about it today or tomorrow. > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The problem is "dfbsd should port over the ath driver." ;-) >> >> The actual cause is likely radio related - the AR9285 code that Rui >> initially ported over was based on what was in ath9k and it was >> suitably unfinished. (So it's not Rui's fault, he did a great job with >> what he had.) I subsequently found/fixed/ported a bunch of stuff with >> an ath9k developer as we *ahem* discovered the ath9k support was >> incomplete. >> >> In fact, if the dragonfly bsd guys were interested, I could have my >> arm twisted into forking off a "shared" project where we have a shared >> ath driver and HAL, and pull it into *BSD as a contrib project. >> >> That way I'd only have to fix bugs once (hah), and everyone could >> immediately benefit from it. >> >> What do you all think? You'd (mostly) get 802.11n for free. :-) >> >> >> >> Adrian >> >> On 19 January 2012 00:31, ssgriffonuser <ssgriffonu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I just installed DFBSD on my EEE netbook and the ath driver seems to be >>> failing after wpa_supplicant is run. The connection is established but the >>> message "ath_reset" is also printed. After that message is printed, >>> dhclient wlan0 cannot connect to the dhcp server. >>> >>> I had a similar problem when I installed FreeBSD 8.2 on the same netbook. >>> However, Adrian Chadd had already fixed the problem in -HEAD so I was able >>> to update the driver and everything worked fine. >>> >>> I'm fairly certain that these problems were one in the same but if somebody >>> else has any ideas I'm all ears. >>> >>> If Adrian is listening on this list, do you remember what that problem was? >>> If so, is it something that I can fix or do I need to know the inner >>> workings of the ath card that are hidden behind an NDA? >>> >>> Thanks
