Re: The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 02:38, James Colannino ja...@colannino.org wrote: Hey everyone, I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset. I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a patch for the 8.0 stable kernel here: http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/ar9285_stable_8.diffhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Erpaulo/ar9285_stable_8.diff It seems to have worked for some people. After patching and re-compiling my kernel, it did manage to detect the device on my machine, but unfortunately, I'm unable to scan for networks or associate with my network. Here's what happens: The machine boots, and I see the ath0 interface when I run ifconfig. I then run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0' and successfully create wlan0. However, when I run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 scan', the command doesn't seem to do anything, and I eventually have to CTRL-C it. Has anybody else had this problem? Is it a known issue? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? It was mentioned that testers were needed for this driver, and I'd love to help out if possible. If anybody wants me to send any additional information, just let me know. Thanks so much everyone! James Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but has this driver been committed to STABLE yet, or do we still need to apply the patch? I am about to embark on installing FreeBSD on this exact model with the exact wifi chip. _ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 22:00, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 02:38, James Colannino ja...@colannino.org wrote: Hey everyone, I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset. I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a patch for the 8.0 stable kernel here: http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/ar9285_stable_8.diffhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Erpaulo/ar9285_stable_8.diff It seems to have worked for some people. After patching and re-compiling my kernel, it did manage to detect the device on my machine, but unfortunately, I'm unable to scan for networks or associate with my network. Here's what happens: The machine boots, and I see the ath0 interface when I run ifconfig. I then run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0' and successfully create wlan0. However, when I run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 scan', the command doesn't seem to do anything, and I eventually have to CTRL-C it. Has anybody else had this problem? Is it a known issue? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? It was mentioned that testers were needed for this driver, and I'd love to help out if possible. If anybody wants me to send any additional information, just let me know. Thanks so much everyone! James Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but has this driver been committed to STABLE yet, or do we still need to apply the patch? I am about to embark on installing FreeBSD on this exact model with the exact wifi chip. Also CC'ing rpaulo@ to have his input. _ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable
Hey everyone, I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset. I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a patch for the 8.0 stable kernel here: http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/ar9285_stable_8.diff It seems to have worked for some people. After patching and re-compiling my kernel, it did manage to detect the device on my machine, but unfortunately, I'm unable to scan for networks or associate with my network. Here's what happens: The machine boots, and I see the ath0 interface when I run ifconfig. I then run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0' and successfully create wlan0. However, when I run the command 'ifconfig wlan0 scan', the command doesn't seem to do anything, and I eventually have to CTRL-C it. Has anybody else had this problem? Is it a known issue? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? It was mentioned that testers were needed for this driver, and I'd love to help out if possible. If anybody wants me to send any additional information, just let me know. Thanks so much everyone! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
