RE: For the love of God, is it even possible to make the Atheros ath.patch & updated HALactually work?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ryan R
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:00 PM
> To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Subject: For the love of God,is it even possible to make the
> Atheros ath.patch & updated HALactually work?
>
> *Sigh*
>
> Hi again everyone..
>
> I'm a novice BSD user who recently purchased an Atheros
> wireless card.  The card is an "Engenius EMP 8602", 6th
> Generation Atheros AR5006 a/b/g chipset.
> ( http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=279 for
> product specs).
>
> I have been racking my brain for DAYS trying to get Sam
> Leffler's ( http://people.freebsd.org/~sam ) ath.patch and
> updated HAL binary to work in
> *ANY* version of FreeBSD.  First, I was told to do a MINIMAL
> install, then cvsup to RELENG_6 and attempt to apply the
> ath.patch.  The patch fails at least 7 hunks in various
> places in various files, 90% of the failed hunks are in
> if_ath.c.  I was then told to
>
> # cd /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev
> # mv ath ath.original
> # tar -xzvf ath_hal_20051212.tgz
> # mv ath_hal_20051212 ath
>
> to update the /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev directory.  Well lo
> and behold, the bloody thing wont compile.. It spits out all
> kinds of errors from if_ath.c about 'undeclared functions'
> and 'needing more parameters to function'
>
> So I scrapped that installation and figured I'd give
> 7.0-CURRENT a try, in hopes that maybe the patch was FINALLY
> applied to the kernel for me, but nope..  It seems only tiny
> bits and pieces from the ath.patch have made it into the
> actual kernel source.  The stock kernel source does not have
> enough of the patch in it to make my wireless card work, and
> trying to apply the patch to the 7.0 kernel is a complete
> failure as well.
>
> So my question is; if the patch doesn't apply cleanly to
> either RELENG_6 nor HEAD, then what the heck WILL it apply
> cleanly to?  This FreeBSD installation is sitting here doing
> absolutely nothing because it's a complete waste on my Laptop
> since there is NO wireless support for it at all.  Yet it
> works just fine in Linux..

Really ? :-) Do you think about madwifi-ng ? I hope not. Ng deos not work
just fine at all !!! :-)

WME (WMM), unexpected deassociation, TPC, DFS (radar sim), option to
enable/disable DFS does not exist and so on things always panic the Debian
GNU/Linux very well, even at boot time!

The opposite that the implementation ath and ath hal 0.9.14.9 is more or
less stable even with wme and tpc enabled in FreeBSD for the long time.

And madwifi-old does not support these new ath chipsets, because of new
version HAL 0.9.16.3.

Madwifi-old = freebsd ath implementation plus wds, sample rate 1.2 and some
more non-essential features.

To June/July 2005 madwifi was very unstable, after merging cvs BSD tree of
madwifi to cvs head tree of madwifi = now madwifi-old is more or less
stable, but without wme or TPC.

And that bsd tree was based on Sam L. good or perfect work for FreeBSD,
until merging code from FreeBSD from Sam L. work, madwifi was unstable
hazard code !

> Does anybody have even the slightest clue when this code may
> actually make it into the kernel sources?

Yes, this question is a bit interesting. I do not understand why this new
version of hal could not be committed to head, if the current is the
"bleeding edge" of FreeBSD DEVELOPMENT and "This code has been in test for a
while and should be fine to use but I will not commit it until I get
feedback." said Sam L. on the 13th of December 2005.

But why ? If we have the CURRENT BRANCH for exact purpouses, at least I
think it after reading the Handbook.

I think if Sam needs some board feedback, so current source tree is the
perfect place, where is useful and where it could get the well feedback.

So actualy I do not know the answer to your question and I am glad to see
your question here.

>  Or better yet,
> does the patch cleanly apply and compile for ANYBODY?  I
> posted this on bsdforums.org and people there can't get it to
> compile either..

I know about at least one man Jiri M., he is active in this mailling list
too. And he succeed with compiling new hal in current and maybe in releng_6.
The details he could tell you.

> I e-mailed the author of the patch but I
> guess he's way too busy and didn't get a chance to respond to me
>
> I'm at my wits end here so any help would be appreciated, I
> really don't want to have to just depend on Linux or Windows
> XP for this system when I've fallen in love with everything
> OTHER than this major problem in FreeBSD :(
>
> Thanks guys; anxiously awaiting any help -Ryan
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