Re: Free firmware for AR9285

2017-04-13 Thread thinkpad-e535-user
>And in case this wasn't clear, note that athn firmware is needed for USB >devices only! The PCI devices supported by our athn(4) driver do not >require firmware. Ah, yes, athn(4) man page states it pretty clear. I'm sorry.

Re: Free firmware for AR9285

2017-04-13 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:08:56AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:14:36PM -0400, thinkpad-e535-user wrote: > > I'm wondering why does Atheros AR9285 need binary firmware on OpenBSD? > > According to this wikipedia article [1] it works on Linux and FreeBSD > > with some f

Re: Free firmware for AR9285

2017-04-13 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:14:36PM -0400, thinkpad-e535-user wrote: > I'm wondering why does Atheros AR9285 need binary firmware on OpenBSD? > According to this wikipedia article [1] it works on Linux and FreeBSD > with some free firmware. Is that in theory possible for OpenBSD to use > it too? >

Free firmware for AR9285

2017-04-12 Thread thinkpad-e535-user
I'm wondering why does Atheros AR9285 need binary firmware on OpenBSD? According to this wikipedia article [1] it works on Linux and FreeBSD with some free firmware. Is that in theory possible for OpenBSD to use it too? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers