Acer 4720Z and Atheros wireless card

[Matt Olander]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:19 PM,  <eculp at cloudmaster.info> wrote:
> Quoting Isaac MacFarlane <spideyfan1972 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Well, I do have a copy of PCBSD already downloaded. If I understand
>> correctly that is a branch of the main FreeBSD project. Is that correct?
>> Is
>> there any reason why I would go with that over the main FreeBSD project?
>> They both look very nice, but I'm not sure which way to go. They seem to
>> both support the same software and hardware. Is one more free than the
>> other?
>
> AFAIK, there is little difference but I've never used pcbsd although I have
> though about trying it but haven't had time.

The current release version of PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD 6.3. They
are exactly the same but PC-BSD has been custom configured to provide
a usable desktop from first boot. For that particular card, you will
need the hal that is in FreeBSD7. I don't believe it was ever MFC'd
back to 6.x.

You can either grab FreeBSD 7 or try out the PC-BSD alpha at
ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/alpha-isos/i386/.
There will be a new PC-BSD alpha up next week.

best,
-matt

>
> I'm copying to the list so that someone with knowledge of PCBSD can answer
> this correctly.
>
> ed
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM, <eculp at cloudmaster.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>  Isaac MacFarlane wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all. I am trying to find a *NIX system that will work with this
>>>>> system. Mandriva calls the card an AR5006 and Vista said it was an
>>>>> AR5007.
>>>>> Vista worked fine for about a month or so, but I have decided I want to
>>>>> go
>>>>> all free on my systems. Mandriva will work with the card but locks up
>>>>> after
>>>>> a few hours requiring a restart. Not really acceptable. And it is the
>>>>> best I
>>>>> found in the Linux world. Would any of the BSD systems work with this
>>>>> card?
>>>>> Any recommendations would be most appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Isaac MacFarlane
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>>>>
>>>> I believe this will work if you follow the instructions to build a
>>>> custom
>>>> kernel, as in the eeepc:
>>>>
>>>> http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD
>>>>
>>>> However, this will not be the easiest task if you are not familiar with
>>>> FreeBSD in general.
>>>>
>>>
>>> As Manolis says, step one would be to install FreeBSD and see if you are
>>> confortable with it.  Then once you have it all running you will want to
>>> use
>>> the link that Manolis sent that I found very interesting but didn't work
>>> for
>>> the atheros that I have in my Acer amd64x2 so I used a freebsd patch that
>>> works beautifully.  When you get to that point, I or I'm sure other more
>>> qualified folks, will be glad to give you a hand.
>>>
>>> good luck,
>>>
>>> ed
>>>
>>>
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