Success with Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171

[Yonghyeon PYUN]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:44:24AM +0200, Nils Beyer wrote:
> Hi Gulyaev,
> 
> Gulyaev Ghosh wrote:
> > Since I ask on the FreeBSD forums, there is a proposition to check
> > alx-freebsd and have initialized interface.
> >
> > So if someone have similar hardware, you can got your experience with
> > that project and share info.
> 
> I've got an onboard "AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" adapter. With your proposed GIT-
> repository and using its branch "master" I'm able to rudimentarily use the
> NIC. But only if the network cable is short (< 2m). Using longer cables gives
> me a "no carrier" status. When it is connected, speed is abysmal and functio-
> nality ceases as soon as I perform an "iperf" benchmark until I reboot.
> 

FYI:
I've completed adding AR816x/AR817x support .  You can find diff at
the following URLs.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/pci.quirk.diff
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/alc.diff.20140930