Not supported Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet

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ORTO-DOX

Good day friends!

I have purchased a motherboard Asus M5A78L-M LX3 and onboard LAN not recognized under latest (svnup'ed from 4 september) -STABLE:
uname -a
Code: 
10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 4 19:44:40 MSK 2014   root@KOR-BSD:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Maybe it possible to add device quirks to driver sources for driver recognize device?
I'm tryin to check files in /usr/src/sys/dev/age/ but not find device IDs.
How can I get that device working?

Info about unknown devices:
pciconf -lv
Code: 
   none1@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x85871043 chip=0x10a11969
   rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
   vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
   class = network
   subclass = ethernet

   none0@pci0:0:20:0: class=0x0c0500 card=0x83891043 chip=0x43851002
   rev=0x3c hdr=0x00
   vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI'
   device = 'SBx00 SMBus Controller'
   class = serial bus
   subclass = SMBus

Info about device from
lspci -v
Code: 
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
   (rev 10)
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8587
   Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
   Memory at feac0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
   I/O ports at dc00
   Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
   Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
   Capabilities: [c0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/16 Maskable+ 64bit+
   Capabilities: [d8] MSI-X: Enable- Count=16 Masked-

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You already asked on the mailinglist, that's good. No response yet, that's not good. But everybody might be a little busy right now preparing for 10.1-RELEASE.
 
Yes, I'm think about release-prepairing too. My post here just for wider spreading information about my question, it is not for annoying to developers :)

I think as much peoples see question, as better :)
 
Good day!

So there is first results about supposed alx projects.
I'm try
cd /root
git clone [url=https://github.com/markjdb/alx-freebsd]https://github.com/markjdb/alx-freebsd[/url]
cd alx-freebsd
make
cp ./if_alx.ko /boot/kernel/
kldload if_alx
And now I have new interface!
Code: 
alx0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether e0:3f:49:ab:a6:7d
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier
/var/log/messages
Code: 
Sep 19 10:29:45 KOR-BSD kernel: alx0: <Qualcomm Atheros AR8171 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f mem 0xfeac0000-0xfeafffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
Sep 19 10:29:45 KOR-BSD kernel: alx0: Ethernet address: e0:3f:49:ab:a6:7d
Sep 19 10:29:45 KOR-BSD devd: Executing '/etc/pccard_ether alx0 start'
So, in that time machine have external PCI Network card for network and used in work, how can I do a stress-testing for that driver when I will be at physical console?
For me I have that plan:
  1. iperf between that host and other. In TCP and UDP mode
  2. set up some ipfw rules and check how system working with them
  3. Mail to alx-freebsd author and share my experience with him
Maybe anything else?
 
Driver and port authors are usually happy with such feedback. Informing network and drivers related lists would be fine. Their members may also provide best advices how to test new driver.
 
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