[haiku-development] Re: FreeBSD network drivers
- From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6723@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 06:24:36 +0000
IIRC some FreeBSD drivers use new kernel functions. (especially the ATH(4)
one)
Ifyou want to get an idea of the changes to the compatibility layer, you
may contact Adrian Chadd from the FreeBSD Team for the details. He
has a good knowledge of all the wifi stuff in FreeBSD.
Best regards
starsseed
PS : An Atheros wifi driver update would be much appreciated
from Donn Cave:
Would that bring USB wireless adapter support? I'm guessing, because
FreeBSD currently seems to have that. Along with probably more current
supported devices, but the USB option seems like a big step forward.
It's a lot to ask, to perform the transplant surgery on a laptop to
install the Atheros card that seems to be the only somewhat safe bet
on Haiku at this time, but if there were a USB alternative, anyone who
really needs wireless could go that way.
Would this transplant surgery be for a PCIE Atheros card?
I have MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard with Realtek 8111E (8168 or 8169?) recognized
by re driver, which fails to connect, but this motherboard also has a wireless
Atheros AR9271 chip, quasi-USB.
No work at present on support for this chip in FreeBSD. NetBSD supports this
chip and sometimes can connect, but most of the time, I get
athn0: could not load firmware (35)
OpenBSD also can never load the firmware even though it is in the proper place
in the filesystem.
I also have Hiro H50191 USB wireless adapter, has worked with FreeBSD, but
after some changes in rsu driver, pretended to connect but didn't really.
Tom
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