Hi,

Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas .

TIA
Ashish
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Ashish Shukla आशीष श�क�ल wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas .
>
>
Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to
look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.

Sam

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Jack Twilley wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Ashish Shukla Ã*¤â€*Ã*¤¶Ã*¥€Ã*¤· Ã*¤¶Ã*Â¥Â�Ã*¤•Ã*Â¥Â�Ã*¤² wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas .
>>>
>>>
>> Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to
>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.
>
> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus
> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page". I
> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi
> dance. It's getting old.

The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's
going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing. As to "getting old"
others are free to pitch in to make things happen. I have very little
time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher
priority issues.

Sam


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Sam Leffler writes:
> Ashish Shukla आशीष श�क�ल wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas .
>>
>>
> Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to
> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.

By "new version" I meant, the new version of driver "ath" which works
with HAL 0.10.5.6. No problem, if it is not going to be available in
RELENG_7 soon .

> Sam

Ashish
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Quoting Sam Leffler :

> Jack Twilley wrote:
>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>> Jack Twilley wrote:
>>>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>>>> Ashish Shukla à ¤†à ¤¶à ¥€à ¤· à ¤¶à ¥Â�à ¤•Ã
>>>>> ¥�à ¤² wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
>>>>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
>>>>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas .
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to
>>>>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.
>>>> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus
>>>> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page". I
>>>> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi
>>>> dance. It's getting old.
>>>
>>> The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's
>>> going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing. As to "getting old"
>>> others are free to pitch in to make things happen. I have very little
>>> time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher
>>> priority issues.
>>
>> All I can offer is the ability to test. I do not have the skill
>> necessary to fix this or I would have written a fix and asked for
>> it to be committed. It is amazingly frustrating to know that there
>> is a workaround and to see that others consider this a low priority
>> issue.
>>
>> If not you, then who should I ask about committing the new HAL to
>> HEAD and helping me check out whatever I need to check out to test
>> the fix so the rest of us can have wireless Ethernet working out of
>> the box?
>
> I have repeatedly asked for testing of the 0.10.5.6 hal sitting in
> http://www.freebsd.org/~sam on HEAD but not gotten enough results to
> commit to HEAD.

I've been using ath_hal-20080528.tgz. with HEAD for quite some time
and it works great on my AcerAspire 5520-5679. I'm automatically
cvsuping, adding the contents of ath_hal-20080528.tgz and rebuilding
world and kernel daily with no issues at all. It works perfectly for
me.

ed

> I will not commit a hal to any tree that causes regressions.
> Atheros long ago yanked the testing resources I used to validate
> hal's for md5release so I am uncertain whether this hal will
> introduce regressions. If things go bad I simply don't have the
> time to deal with it so nothing has gone in.
>
> Past that a backport to RELENG_7 is straightforward but again
> nothing happens until code is in HEAD.
>
> I am asking around for someone else to deal with a commit to HEAD.
>
> Sam
>
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Quoting Sam Leffler :

> Jack Twilley wrote:
>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>> Ashish Shukla Ã*¤â€*Ã*¤¶Ã*¥€Ã*¤· Ã*¤¶Ã*Â¥Â�Ã*¤•Ã*Â¥Â�Ã*¤² wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
>>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
>>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas .
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to
>>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.
>>
>> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus
>> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page". I
>> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi
>> dance. It's getting old.
>
> The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's
> going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing. As to "getting old"
> others are free to pitch in to make things happen. I have very little
> time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher
> priority issues.

Just saw the great news, Sam. Thanks for your work on this and for
adding it to current. Checking my current@ email I found "HEADS UP:
ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST" which I'm completely
confident will solve the problems without any more patching. I just
changed my build script for tonight to not add the old patch the
source. I'll comment tomorrow after booting the new kernel.

Thanks again, Sam.

ed.
>
> Sam
>
>
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Quoting eculp@cloudmaster.info:

> Quoting Sam Leffler :
>
>> Jack Twilley wrote:
>>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>>> Ashish Shukla Ã*¤â€*Ã*¤¶Ã*¥€Ã*¤· Ã*¤¶Ã*Â¥Â�Ã*¤•Ã*Â¥Â�Ã*¤² wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
>>>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
>>>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to
>>>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.
>>>
>>> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus
>>> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page". I
>>> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi
>>> dance. It's getting old.
>>
>> The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's
>> going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing. As to "getting old"
>> others are free to pitch in to make things happen. I have very little
>> time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher
>> priority issues.
>
> Just saw the great news, Sam. Thanks for your work on this and for
> adding it to current. Checking my current@ email I found "HEADS UP:
> ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST" which I'm completely
> confident will solve the problems without any more patching. I just
> changed my build script for tonight to not add the old patch the
> source. I'll comment tomorrow after booting the new kernel.
>
> Thanks again, Sam.
>
Results:

Worked Perfectly for me in today's current without external patches.

wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
inet 172.16.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
status: associated
ssid virus channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:51:e1:4d
regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst

# uname -a
FreeBSD ed.local.net.mx 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #17: Thu Aug
28 05:50:27
CDT 2008 root@ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO i386

Thanks again to all who have made this happen.

ed
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