Re: Is 'ath' going to be updated for 7.1-RELEASE ?
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Quoting [email protected]: > Quoting Sam Leffler <[email protected]>: > >> Jack Twilley wrote: >>> Sam Leffler wrote: >>>> Ashish Shukla आशीष शà¥à¤•à¥à¤² 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. > > Just saw the great news, Sam. Thanks for your work on this and for > adding it to current. Checking my current@ email I found "HEADS UP: > ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST" which I'm completely > confident will solve the problems without any more patching. I just > changed my build script for tonight to not add the old patch the > source. I'll comment tomorrow after booting the new kernel. > > Thanks again, Sam. > Results: Worked Perfectly for me in today's current without external patches. wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5 inet 172.16.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid virus channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:51:e1:4d regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst # uname -a FreeBSD ed.local.net.mx 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #17: Thu Aug 28 05:50:27 CDT 2008 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO i386 Thanks again to all who have made this happen. ed _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"