HEADS UP: ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST

[Vincent Hoffman]

Henri-Pierre Charles wrote:
> Hello, (I reply to myself)
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Henri-Pierre Charles
> <hpcharles at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> We've updated ath_hal in HEAD to 0.10.5.10. This supports a couple of
>>> new chips, namely those on the Asus Eee PC, MacBooks and other laptops.
>>>       
>> It's included into  8.0-CURRENT-200809-i386 snapshot if I understand correctly.
>> I've tried 7.1-BETA and 8.0-CURRENT-200809 on my eeepc model 701
>>
>> 7.1 does not recognize ath0, as expected, but 8.0-CURRENT does.
>> The corresponding dmesg can be found here :
>>
>> * http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~hpc/pmwiki/uploads/Data/dmesg-7.1-BETA.txt
>> * http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~hpc/pmwiki/uploads/Data/dmesg-8.0-200809.txt
>>
>> The 8.0-CURRENT-200809-i386 contain ath_hal 0.10.5.10 but I was unable
>> to use the interface. "dhclient ath0" never give up. Let me know if I
>> can try something.
>>     
>
> I discover a "new" way to configure network interface, with wlan
> I have tried to put in my rc.conf:
>     wlans_ath0=wlan0
>     ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>
> And .. it works, with a WPA2 configuration and also with only DHCP.
> Conclusion 8-0-CURRENT-200809 work out of the box for the eeepc 701.
>
> The only documentation I have found is
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf . Is there something
> more substantial ?
>
>   
/usr/src/UPDATING
check the 20080420  entry.
Always check this when updating your sources unless you read every mail
on the current@ mailing list and even then its worth checking it.

Vince
>> And what about the rj45 interface for eee 701 ? Any chance to be supported
>> in a near future ?
>>     
>
> Any tips ?
>
> H-P
>
>