I got myself an AMD-based Acer notebook recently. The wireless chip
shows up under lspci -v as...
06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e01f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at d0300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
I checked Google and the Gentoo wiki for the proper kernel config.
Just one problem... the docs I could find were for older kernels. I'm
running 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 and the options layout is quite different from
what I see in the docs. Here's what I've set in "make menuconfig",
based on gut feeling...
--- Wireless
<*> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API
[ ] nl80211 testmode command
[ ] enable developer warnings
[ ] cfg80211 regulatory debugging
[*] enable powersave by default
[ ] cfg80211 DebugFS entries
[ ] cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility
<*> Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
[ ] lib80211 debugging messages (NEW)
<*> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
Default rate control algorithm (Minstrel) --->
[ ] Enable mac80211 mesh networking (pre-802.11s) support
[*] Enable LED triggers
[ ] Export mac80211 internals in DebugFS
[ ] Select mac80211 debugging features --->
And a couple of levels deep under "Device drivers", I've selected...
<*> Atheros 802.11n wireless cards support
Does it look OK, or would anyone recommend changes? BTW, I'm running
pure 64-bit mode.
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
