Atheros AR8152

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cookiemonster

Hi everyone!

After jumping into FreeBSD a week ago (without any prior *nix knowledge!), I have it installed & running on four PCs (yay!) - thanks to all who wrote the Handbook, and Michael Lucas of Absolute FreeBSD!

Well now that I bored everyone with my short hello, I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I am running 8.1-RELEASE i386, and I've tried drivers if_alc_load as well as ale, age, ae, all in loader.conf with and without miibus support, all without success. I've even tried ndis support w/WinXP on the Atheros driver (multiple versions), but they cause the kernel to panic & attempt to reboot (but doesn't). During this panic time, the nic lights do come on, but I cannot get FreeBSD to respond on any tty.

If anyone has an idea on what else I could try, I'd greatly appreciate it! Otherwise, does anyone have an idea when support for the AR815x will be added?
 
Oops ... I forgot to add that I am attempting to do this on an Acer AO521 netbook with the new AMD M880G chipset, and the problem is with the Atheros AR8152 NIC!
 
alc(4) in CURRENT should support your AR8152.
Use alc(4) in CURRENT. Just copy related files in CURRENT and rebuild it on 8.1-RELEASE. It should build and work without issues. If you still encounter issues, please open a new PR and let me know the PR number.
 
I recently installed FreeBSD in my notebook, beside some issues about cylinders, went pretty smoothly, but when I attempt to dhclient, the complete system is frozen and inoperative. What's going on with the driver for AR8152? Any of you have a workaround this? Because I can't use FreeBSD without internet =/
 
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