AR9280

[Pete Carah]

I have a new laptop that came with a Ralink N card that wasn't supported
in either Fedora or FreeBSD; I substituted an Atheros card (boy, these
things are getting cheap nowadays - ABGN for $53) (the antennas don't
appear to handle A very well, not like my old sony, but they do handle
it).  It works fine in Fedora 10 and I got it partly because grepping
the source for 9280 showed what appeared to be support in FBSD.  However
(7.2-stable sup'd yesterday) there are a few files still missing.  Is
there a way to get the rest of this driver?  (like in HEAD, maybe, if it
is compatible enough?)

Sam - I can do some debugging but don't have time for a lot, so if
things are "almost" finished it is probably OK.  (I do linux device
drivers at work so can handle generic kernel debugging, though I'm not
too familiar with fbsd locking in its current incarnation (linux is
missing some things like recursive locks that I'd want, and is starting
to use rcu for read/write locking; I don't know about fbsd...) 

Both of the networks I normally access are WPA2; one PSK and the other
PEAP.  The linux driver handles the PEAP and I haven't tried it with the
PSK network yet.  Can't try vista due to a grub malfunction :-(  (it
handles bsd fine, and of course fedora also but just reboots when you
try vista.  It's nice to have a laptop with enough disk to triple-boot.)

-- Pete