Re: Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-17 Thread Todd Zimmermann
Not sure if it's related to the arch (amd64), but have a variant compared to what the author of this thread posted. ath0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 19 ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR4W, address 00:1b:9e:3a:bb:18 Prior to the Jun12 snap there were 5 lines

Re: Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-14 Thread lm
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:44:02AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > You may want to start by posting a dmesg to the list. > > As I have been advised to attach a complete dmesg ouptut, I'm sending this again. Here it's the complete trace: OpenBSD 5.5-current (GENERIC) #164: Wed Jun 11 13:11:27 MDT 2

Re: Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-14 Thread lm
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:13:13AM +0200, lm wrote: > Here are the relevant lines from dmesg, those referring to ath0: > > ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 18 > ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR0W, address 00:15:af:b3:bc:26 > ath0: unable to reset hardware; h

Re: Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-14 Thread lm
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:44:02AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > You may want to start by posting a dmesg to the list. > Here are the relevant lines from dmesg, those referring to ath0: ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 18 ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR0W,

Re: Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-13 Thread Todd Zimmermann
Hello, Apologies to the list if I (likely) bung up this reply. Have the AR5424 here too, but on a circa 2007 Toshiba Satellite A215. My abilities are limited to applying patches and reporting the results, but willing to test also. >From using this on Winders and Ubuntu, can pass on that this chi

Re: Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-06-13, lm wrote: > It seems it's supported on NetBSD (or, at least, they claim that on > ath(4)). It probably is, that nic works on most OS. > The thing is, is there anybody in the room that knows why this driver > didn't succeed in the past? Is there any tip you want to share before > I

Re: Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-13 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 08:53:37AM BST, lm wrote: > Hi there, > this is my first mail to the mailing list, so hello everybody! Hello. > The thing is, is there anybody in the room that knows why this driver > didn't succeed in the past? Is there any tip you want to share before > I start working

Porting a driver from NetBSD

2014-06-13 Thread lm
Hi there, this is my first mail to the mailing list, so hello everybody! I have been using OpenBSD as a server during the last two years, and I finally decided to move it to one of my laptops. I started with an EeePC 701, and almost everything is working smoothly, but the Wireless Card doesn't