wireless

[brenden1096]

Hi. I am trying to get wireless to work on my laptop which has a "Atheros AR9285 Wireless LAN (AR928x)" and I have in /boot/loader.conf

if_ath_load="YES"

and it is still not being detected but it is detected in pciconf -lv. I'm running FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE.

 

[jrm@]

Are there any relevant lines in /var/run/dmesg.boot?
What does % kldstat show?
Do you have a newline after if_ath_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf?

 

[brenden1096]

No other line after if_ath_load="YES", thats actually the only line within /boot/loader.conf and it only shows the kernel loaded no other modules are loaded and in dmesg log there is nothing displaying about the card.

 

[brenden1096]

I read somewhere about my card being supported in ath_hal but I can't find anywhere on how to load it. And in 8.1 the ath(4) driver now supports Atheros AR9285-based devices but i want to try to hold off on updating to FreeBSD 8.

 

[fonz]

"Atheros AR9285 Wireless LAN (AR928x)"
[snip]
I'm running FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE.

If I'm not mistaken, support for this card was added somewhere in FreeBSD 8.X and I honestly don't know whether the driver can be backported to 7.X.

To find out who does know the answer to that, you may need to search these forums and/or the mailing lists.

Fonz

 

[brenden1096]

I installed FreeBSD 8.2 and now I have it configured but now I see this error

ath0: hardware error; resetting
ath0: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000, 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000

Something similar to that atleast. I wasn't able to copy/paste it.