Re: Atheros AR9280 unrecognized

[Sylvain Mora <sylvain.mora%googlemail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for your reply.

The kernel -current is not enought ? I thought that was enough for drivers.
So I have to install NetBSD 5.1 or current entire ?

Regards
Sylvain

2010/5/14 Mike Bowie <mbowie%buzmo.com@localhost>

> On 5/13/10 11:04 AM, Sylvain Mora wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just installed NetBSD 5.0.2 on my laptop and encountered a problem with
>> my
>> atheros wireless card.
>>
>> It is a AR9280 Atheros chipset, and on the man 4 ath from NetBSD current i
>> saw it was supported. So I compiled the NetBSD current kernel (Without
>> MODULAR option), but my wireless card is still unrecognized.
>>
>> 'ifconfig -a' doesn't show any ath0 device
>>
>> and dmesg show :
>>
>> vendor 0x168c product 0x002a (miscellaneous network, revision 0x01) at
>> pci3
>> dev 0 function 0 not configured
>>
>> Did I miss something ? Do I need to do anything else to get my card
>> working
>> ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sylvain
>>
>>
> Hey Sylvain,
>
> You might want to try the 5.1 RC.  If you check the man page for 5.0.2,
> you'll see that the AR9280 isn't mentioned; so it's either in 5.1 or
> -current.
>
> HTH,
>
> Mike.