My Acer Aspire One 751 shipped with Atheros AR5001. Recognized and works in Linux
$ lspci -vv -s 03:00.0 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e00d Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ath5k Kernel modules: ath5k It is recognized as AR5424 by OpenBSD: ath0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 17 (irq 4) ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR5_ETSIC, address 00:24:2c:6f:ab:c0 Doesn't work $ ifconfig ath0 scan debug ath0: unable to reset hardware: hal status 3 I need help to make it work. It is working in Linux, and backport was already made for AR5424 http://www.mail-archive.com/tech@openbsd.org/msg01613.html PS: is it a right mailing list?