Re: Atheros 5424/2424 support lacking

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>]

On 1/7/15 11:30 PM, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found an old laptop that has an Atheros wifi card which seems to lack support in NetBSD(-7_BETA):
>
> ath0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: Atheros 5424/2424
> ath0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3
>
> I found this old thread talking about 5424:
>
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2010/05/27/msg013548.html
>
> I guess the patches never went into NetBSD?
>
> Re,
> /P
>     

Can you test them?  A brief glance at that message shows that only build 
testing was done.  Actual experience with the patches _working_ would 
get things further...

+j