5418 has worked for several years in HEAD. At this point the only ath
chips not working in HEAD are those I haven't had access to (9280 and
9285) and 9280 support should go in shortly. About the only thing
missing for ath is support for 11n (the 802.11 layer has supported 11n
on other devices for several years and been used in various products).
I can't comment on RELENG_7 support as I don't run it.
Sam
John Hendy wrote:
For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros
AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I
ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to
ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The
kernel panics every time I load it.
I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but
the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver (
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)... Even
though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is not
picked up and it's definitely an AR5008.
- John
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava...@gmail.com> wrote:
Saifi Khan writes:
[...]
Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
with FreeBSD ?
Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.
--
Ashish SHUKLA
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