Re: Looking for various wifi hardware

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

from Martin Husemann:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 02:00:23PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > > This page points to the https://wiki.netbsd.org/Wifi_renewal_on_hg/
> > > page, which shows

> > > hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src-draft
       
> > After I got it, I tried to build kernel and modules; the modules build
> > failed in some usb-based module; I then tried just to build a kernel
> > (all that after 'hg up wifi' reported some 260 modified files). The
> > failure was in  src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c and the error messages all

> Not all drivers have been converted yet (else we would quickly merge
> the branch ;-})
        
> The wiki page cited by Patrick above says "not ready for general testing",
> and that is true.

> But:
        
>         https://wiki.NetBSD.org/Testing_new_wifi/

> has instructions what you need to exclude from evbarm kernels, I guess
> I should add the similar list from the SEVEN_WIFI kernel config and instead
> switch over to use GENERIC for testing on amd64 too.

I have a an MSI MPOWER motherboard from 2013 with onboard Atheros 9271 wireless adapter, and it does not work with NetBSD-current, though it worked undependably with NetBSD-current at times in the past.

Now it causes NetBSD-current boot to hang unless I boot -c and disable athn.

I suspect it may be due to something in the more general kernel infrastructure rather than the athn driver per se.

FreeBSD does not support this wi-fi at all.

Tom