My Acer Aspire One 751 shipped with Atheros AR5424.
It isn't supported, but was found during boot
> ath0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 17 (irq 4)
> ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR5_ETSIC, address 00:24:2c:6f:ab:c0
It fails to scan network:
$ ifconfig ath0 scan debug
ath0: unable to reset hardware: hal status 3
I've found that Luis Henriques was able to use it year ago
http://www.mail-archive.com/tech@openbsd.org/msg01613.html
So I've started from recompiling my kernel.
No changes applied just src.tar.gz by ftp and recompiled kernel
Running same command gives me other errors:
$ ifconfig ath0 scan debug
ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 200
ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3692322168
Running again gives only second:
$ ifconfig ath0 scan debug
ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3692322168
Why? I've made no changes in kernel and I was waiting for same error (status 3)!
there was no changes except recompiling kernel. I've downloaded src.tar.gz and
sys.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/
which is official ftp mirror
12:33 < sergeykish> then I've used instructions from
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html 5.3.4 - Building the kernel
12:36 < sergeykish> yes, AR5424 isn't supported, but I've found
http://www.mail-archive.com/tech@openbsd.org/msg01613.html
12:36 < sergeykish> and first step is recompiling kernel and checking same
behaviour
12:37 < sergeykish> but for some reason it is changed, why?
12:37 < sergeykish> (I've recompiled kernel without patch)
