On Apr 25 2010 22:15, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > Let me preface my commentary with "I'm way out of my league", so #include > disclaimer.h and all that ... > > For starters, in re: above, didn't someone suggest "libpciaccess" as the > source for "scanpci"? I can't tell if you are misunderstanding what S > Roberts suggested, or I am misunderstanding what you are responding. > > I'm pretty sure there's some misunderstanding here, though.
Thanks for your response, Kevin. I did try rebuilding libpciaccess, to no avail. I also searched elsewhere. > > I thought we had pciconf output that stated it was an Atheros chipset? > In that case, it would be the Azurewave, right? I'd suspect it might > be supported under ath(4), but you'd wanna read the manpage and possibly > even the source for any kind of confirmation on that; the manpage does > specifically say that adapters based on the AR5005VL aren't supported. > However, the manpage might be slightly out-of-date, also. Yes, pciconf says Atheros. I guess that does rule out Intel, and I see from a little searching that at least some Azurewave devices use an Atheros chipset. I, too, am a little out of my depth in this region, as is probably obvious from my posts. > > The other thing I recall seeing is that a new variant of a supported > chipset comes out, and the driver code doesn't recognize it even though > it might work well. Used to be something like a VENDOR_ID string in > the source files; I don't know if it's still the case, but if it was, > some people have been able to hack their own device support in rare > cases simply by adding the new info to the driver file and recompiling > it, but you'd want someone with a lot more $OS_foo than I have to help > out with that (or tell you if it's even possible). This is open-source > stuff; you might even get sam@ 's attention and get help from the writer > himself if you're wearing your lucky sneakers. > Yes, I've seen that done with video drivers. Perhaps I'll give it a go with the ath or uath driver, neither of which work for me out of the box (so to speak). Thanks again. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
