Re: Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread Anthony Jenkins
HP ENVY 6Z-1100 Sleekbook http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=5330122 Anthony - Original Message - From: Adrian Chadd To: Anthony Jenkins Cc: tzoi516 ; "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 5:18 PM Subject: Re: Re: Atheros A

Re: Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
Which HP laptop? -a On 9 April 2014 13:35, Anthony Jenkins wrote: > Hey, I've got one of these babies in my HP laptop; I actually posted some > problems I was having to the list back in Aug. '13. I could loan you mine > and/or assist with debugging if I can have it back (can make do with an

Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread tzoi516
My computer is a laptop - the link to it is in my first email. I haven't touched code out of a Windows IDE since the mid-90's, so this might be a good learning experience for me. Thanks. On 04/09/14 15:44, Adrian Chadd wrote: > The driver source is in sys/dev/ath/ and sys/contrib/dev/ath/ath_hal/a

Re: Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread Anthony Jenkins
Hey, I've got one of these babies in my HP laptop; I actually posted some problems I was having to the list back in Aug. '13.  I could loan you mine and/or assist with debugging if I can have it back (can make do with an external wireless device). Anthony Fro

Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
The driver source is in sys/dev/ath/ and sys/contrib/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9300/ I have all of the linux driver source and the atheros internal driver source for their AP products but their desktop drivers are .. very laptop specific and it's hard to get the driver source out of the relevant group(s).

Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread tzoi516
Hi, Thanks for all of the help. Where is the driver source code? I'll submit a PR today. Thanks, Mike On 04/09/14 15:02, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > The AR9565 is a relatively new chip that hasn't really been thoroughly > tested in FreeBSD. Laptop manufacturers have also gone and done some > r

Re: Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
(.. and my standard offer applies here. I'm much better likely to fix things if I have one of them. I likely can't buy that specific NIC; I'd have to have the whole laptop. So if someone wishes to buy me one of these things, I'll endeavour to improve upon power saving and wifi support.) -a __

Re: Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, The AR9565 is a relatively new chip that hasn't really been thoroughly tested in FreeBSD. Laptop manufacturers have also gone and done some rather silly things to save cost on the wireless NIC itself and I'm not sure those patches / work arounds are in -HEAD. please file a PR with this proble

Fwd: Re: Atheros AR9565

2014-04-09 Thread tzoi516
I'm using the GENERIC kernel. Want me to create a custom kernel? pciconf info: hostb0@pci0:0:0:0:class=0x06 card=0xfa401179 chip=0x0c048086 rev=0x06 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Haswell DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI p