Re: ath patch+hal for test

Oh, my apologies, I was being too hasty.. I should have noted that a
couple of days ago I tried this exact process and wasn't successfull
at all, so something major happened since then I'm assuming..

Also, the card I am using is probably a pretty common one, so I'd
expect this to work for lots of people

My wireless card is an "EnGenius EMP-8602" which uses a "6th
Generation Atheros AR5006" chipset.
http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=279 is the card I've got.

It is also the exact same as the Senao NMP-8602 models and similar
cards I had all seen with this Atheros chipset..

ath_hal: 0.9.16.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, DFS)
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xfafe0000-0xfafeffff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:02:6f:3e:1c:9e
ath0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3

Just thought that might be useful in case anyone with similar cards
was interested

Cheers


> On 2/9/06, Ryan R <air.lightz_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Just reporting in..  The patch worked EXCELLENT, not a single error
> during patching (Which I had loads of before) and not a single issue
> compiling the kernel.  Here's exactly what I did:
>
>
> 1. Popped in my original  6.0-BOOTONLY ISO image, with a wired
> ethernet connection plugged in.
>
> 2. Chose the MINIMAL install, and only chose the cvsup-without-gui
> package, bash, and lynx (to view the handbook or websites).
>
> 3. Edited the stock 'standard-supfile' and synced my source tree (To
> 6.1-PRERELEASE)
>
> 4. cd /usr/src , then patch -p0 < /path/to/ath.patch (You have to
> manually type in which files to patch though once the process starts,
> the ath.patch refers to a customized /usr/ncvs directory which doesn't
> exist) and patched each file respectively.
>
> 5. cd /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev and renamed the original ath directory,
> unpacked the ath_hal-20051212.tgz here and renamed it in place of the
> original ath
>
> 6. make buildworld , make buildkernel , make installkernel, reboot,
> mergemaster -p, make installworld
>
> 7. created a real simple /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file for my network,
> with my WPA2 PSK and home network SSID info in it
>
> 8. added 'ifconfig_ath0="ssid my_ssid WPA DHCP" ' to /etc/rc.conf
>
> 9. manually loaded the if_ath module to make sure I got the dmesg info
> and it displayed itself properly, which it did, then added
> 'if_ath_load="YES" , and , wlan_ccmp_load="YES" ' to my
> /boot/loader.conf file to make sure they loaded automatically;
> rebooted again for good measure and to bring everything up, and
> voila!!works like a charm!  My WPA2 home network finally works with my
> laptop!!
>
> Just wanted to say thanks again, I can now actually make use of this
> laptop and use it all over the house
>
> Excellent job!!  Thanks!!
> Cheers!
>
> -Ryan
>
> On 2/6/06, Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> wrote:
> > You can find the 0.9.16.13 hal (that's been out for a while) and an
> > updated ath.patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/ath.  Please test and
> > report any regressions against what is in CVS.  This patch should work
> > on both HEAD and RELENG_6.  I hope to get things in CVS in time to make
> > the 6.1 release so timely feedback is important.
> >
> > This hal is required if you have one of the newer Atheros parts (e.g.
> > 5414).  I've mainly tested station mode so beware of ap mode problems.
> >
> > I am aware of one issue that is not fixed in this patch: beacon miss
> > handling may not work correctly if the beacon timers are initialized
> > with a stale tsf (as can happen when scanning many channels).  This
> > affects both station and adhoc mode operation and will be fixed when I
> > commit the changes.
> >
> > If you have a laptop with a radio on/off switch I've tried to add the
> > necessary glue to make it functional but since I don't have any laptops
> > of this sort the code is untested.
> >
> >         Sam
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