Re: Atheros WIFI is not recognized on FreeBSD 8.0-RC1

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:09:14 +0300
Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh_at_redwerk.com> wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> I am facing some strange issue with recognizing the wifi card on my ASUS K40IN
> laptop.
> 
> pciconf -lv shows me the following:
> 
> none5_at_pci0:5:0:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     class      = network
> 
> On wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee#head-47f2e69f1dd87ec8920929cef682552933095ce6
> 
> there is the statement:
> 
> Wireless Atheros 9285 (supported in 8.0 only?) class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0xc0 hdr=0x00 
> 
> the only difference is in "rev" property - 0x01 != 0xc0
> 
> The question is - is it possible to change something in the sources of kernel
> so the card will be recognized? And can somebody please explain what I should
> to try out?
> 

I'm no expert on Atheros.  In /sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ah_devid.h there's a
#define AR9285_DEVID_PCIE	0x002b          /* AR9285 PCI-E Kite */
but it isn't used in any C source file.

Note that the entry in the Wiki isn't claiming that this chip works.
The poster is merely wondering whether it might be supported in 8.0
and later FreeBSD versions.

Looks like it isn't.

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Gary Jennejohn