Re: Atheros AR9460 and Acer Aspire V17 Nitro on FreeBSD 11 not working

From: Miguel Clara <miguelmclara_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:44:57 +0000
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 21 March 2015 at 17:33, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It may be rfkill then. It may be that there's a GPIO pin wired up
> >> somewhere that needs updating. Erk.
> >>
> >> Someone buy me one of these laptops so I can see what's going on? :)
> >>
> >
> > Mine (Acer Acer Aspire S3-391) costs around 650€ I think... The V17 has
> "air
> > plain mode" instead of the Wi-FI on/off, but I guess it does the same
> > thing... it also costs much more because of all the other hardware.
> >
> > I gladly give you one if I could afford it... :P
> >
> > Id be happy to join in a group donation if that's even possible.
> >
> >
> > On another note this module is wifi+bluetooth, I wonder if in my case
> this
> > dmesg log showing:
> > ugen1.4: <vendor 0x0489> at usbus1 (disconnected)
> > ugen1.4: <vendor 0x0489> at usbus1
> >
>
> Is acctaully refering to turning off(hardware) bluetooth since I keep the
> > wireless?
>

ugen1.4: <product 0xe04e vendor 0x0489> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
(12Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA)

Interesting find:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/7/162 (guess you're already aware of that... I
was already typing this when I noticed you're reply)


>
> Yup.
>
> (Reminds me, I should update ath3kfw in the base system already; I
> have updated it locally to load in firmware for all the newer NICs.)
>
> It may just be RFKILL. Hm, I wonder how you'd go about fixing that.
>
>

> What are the contents of sysctl dev.ath.0 ? Can you put it up
> somewhere? I think the rfkill setup/gpio pins are there.
>

Full:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=SnMRV7zX

sysctl dev.ath.0 | eg 'rfkill|gpio|setup'

dev.ath.0.rfkill: 1


>
> -adrian
>
Received on Sat Mar 21 2015 - 23:45:18 UTC

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