Re: Is 'ath' going to be updated for 7.1-RELEASE ?

Jack Twilley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sam Leffler wrote:
> Jack Twilley wrote:
>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>> Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
>>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
>>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas :).
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> Not sure what "new version" means.  I'm unlikely to have any time to
>>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.
>> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus
>> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page".  I
>> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi
>> dance.  It's getting old.
> 
> The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's
> going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing.  As to "getting old"
> others are free to pitch in to make things happen.  I have very little
> time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher
> priority issues.

All I can offer is the ability to test.  I do not have the skill 
necessary to fix this or I would have written a fix and asked for it to 
be committed.  It is amazingly frustrating to know that there is a 
workaround and to see that others consider this a low priority issue.

If not you, then who should I ask about committing the new HAL to HEAD 
and helping me check out whatever I need to check out to test the fix so 
the rest of us can have wireless Ethernet working out of the box?

Jack.

> 
> 	Sam
> 
> 

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