Re: any support for Atheros AR9285 wireless and AR8132 ethernet?

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, fire crow wrote:

> it works!
> Thanks for the patches Pierre, using the patches on a current install did
> the trick

Can you point me to the most recent patches? It didn't work for me, but
maybe there were newer patches to try.

I used alc1.patch and alc2.patch (see below) with a current branch dated around that time (May 27, 2010)

> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2010/03/20/msg016726.html

> in srs/sys/dev/pci :
> - apply patch 1 : http://perso.crans.org/~allegraud/alc1.patch
> - regenerate pcidevs*.h

> - apply patch 2 : http://perso.crans.org/~allegraud/alc2.patch

> I have the AR8132 Atheros Ethernet Card, on an asus ul50vt laptop
>
> as mentioned earlier in the thread, dhcp does not work, which is the case
> for my freebsd partition on the same laptop so this may not be a netbsd
> specific issue.

Did you ever get dhclient or dhcpcd to work?

no I didn't, and they didn't work in freebsd either, whose alc is also from the openbsd driver I believe.

> it's great to have internet access to start setting up netbsd
> again!!!!!!!!!!!

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:28 PM, fire crow <fire%firecrow.com@localhost> wrote:

HI Pierre,

thanks for posting the patches,

I'm not entirely familiar with kernel drivers, (look forward to working with them though)
have some simple questions...

from your post:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2010/03/20/msg016726.html
> in srs/sys/dev/pci :
> - apply patch 1 : http://perso.crans.org/~allegraud/alc1.patch

> - regenerate pcidevs*.h
> - apply patch 2 : http://perso.crans.org/~allegraud/alc2.patch

> - add dev alc in your kernel config

I'm getting stuck on the last step

adding "alc* at pci? dev? function?"

gives me the following message when I try to config the kernel

% config MY_SHINY_NEW_KERNEL
"error unknown device 'alc'"

is there a different syntax I should be using to add the "alc" device to my kernel config?