Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Support

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 07:36:13AM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> 	Hi, 
> I purchased a Toshiba Satellite P875-S7200. I can not use the onboard ethernet 
> port because there is not a driver associated with it. I was wondering if an 
> driver was forthcoming supporting the subject chipsets. Also, are there any 
> work arounds.

I was told that Qualcomm Atheros is working on writing driver for
FreeBSD so it would be available in future. I don't know ETA
though.

> 
> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Sep  2 06:02:47 EDT 2012
> 
> 
> none2 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0xff1e1179 chip=0x10901969 
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb8600000, size 262144, enabled
>     bar   [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x2000, size 128, enabled
>     cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D3  current D0
>     cap 10[58] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(4096) link x1(x1)
>     cap 05[c0] = MSI supports 16 messages, 64 bit, vector masks 
>     cap 11[d8] = MSI-X supports 16 messages in map 0x10
> ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected
> ecap 0003[180] = Serial 1 ff262ff500266cff
> 
> V/r
> Derrick