Hi All, I have an Acer Aspire One 722 netbook. It looks like this with the GENERIC.MP kernel:
**** OpenBSD 5.2 (GENERIC.MP) #368: Wed Aug 1 10:04:49 MDT 2012 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery> real mem = 4003721216 (3818MB) avail mem = 3874770944 (3695MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xe3e70 (51 entries) bios0: vendor Acer version "V1.08" date 12/06/2011 bios0: Acer AO722 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP HPET APIC MCFG BOOT SLIC SSDT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices SPB2(S4) GEC_(S4) USB0(S3) USB4(S3) P2P_(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 32 bits acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318180 Hz acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: AMD C-60 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 998.33 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,SSSE3,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,IBS,SKINIT cpu0: 32KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: 8 4MB entries fully associative cpu0: DTLB 40 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative cpu0: apic clock running at 199MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: AMD C-60 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 997.51 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,SSSE3,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,IBS,SKINIT cpu1: 32KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu1: 8 4MB entries fully associative cpu1: DTLB 40 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfec00000, version 21, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 4 acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xf8000000, bus 0-63 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB2_) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB3_) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB4_) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB5_) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB6_) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB7_) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 2 (SPB0) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus -1 (SPB1) acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus 6 (SPB2) acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus 7 (SPB3) acpiprt11 at acpi0: bus 1 (P2P_) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C2, PSS acpicpu1 at acpi0: C2, PSS acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 model "13848633228217409" serial 417d type Lion oem "Sanyo " acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpibtn2 at acpi0: LID_ acpivideo0 at acpi0: VGA_ acpivout0 at acpivideo0: LCD_ acpivideo1 at acpi0: VGA_ acpivideo2 at acpi0: VGA_ cpu0: 998 MHz: speeds: 1000 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD AMD64 14h Host" rev 0x00 vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x9807 rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) azalia0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "ATI Radeon HD 6310 HD Audio" rev 0x00: msi azalia0: no supported codecs ahci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "ATI SBx00 SATA" rev 0x00: apic 4 int 19, AHCI 1.2 scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, WDC WD3200BPVT-2, 01.0> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.50014ee25be3a7df sd0: 305245MB, 512 bytes/sector, 625142448 sectors ohci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 4 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 4 int 17 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "ATI EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ohci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "ATI SB700 USB" rev 0x00: apic 4 int 18, version 1.0, legacy support ehci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 2 "ATI SB700 USB2" rev 0x00: apic 4 int 17 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 "ATI EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "ATI SBx00 SMBus" rev 0x42: polling iic0 at piixpm0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 4GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-10600 SO-DIMM azalia1 at pci0 dev 20 function 2 "ATI SBx00 HD Audio" rev 0x40: apic 4 int 16 azalia1: codecs: Conexant/0x506c audio0 at azalia1 pcib0 at pci0 dev 20 function 3 "ATI SB700 ISA" rev 0x40 ppb0 at pci0 dev 20 function 4 "ATI SB600 PCI" rev 0x40 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "ATI SB800 PCIE" rev 0x00: msi pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 21 function 2 "ATI SB800 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci3 at ppb2 bus 6 alc0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Attansic Technology L2C" rev 0xc1: msi, address dc:0e:a1:54:ba:16 atphy0 at alc0 phy 0: F2 10/100 PHY, rev. 5 ppb3 at pci0 dev 21 function 3 "ATI SB800 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci4 at ppb3 bus 7 "Atheros AR9485" rev 0x01 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 14h Link Cfg" rev 0x43 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 14h Address Map" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 14h DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00 km0 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 14h Misc Cfg" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 4 "AMD AMD64 14h CPU Power" rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 24 function 5 "AMD AMD64 14h Reserved" rev 0x00 pchb6 at pci0 dev 24 function 6 "AMD AMD64 14h NB Power" rev 0x00 pchb7 at pci0 dev 24 function 7 "AMD AMD64 14h Reserved" rev 0x00 usb2 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "ATI OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uvideo0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. WebCam" rev 2.00/82.57 addr 2 video0 at uvideo0 umass0 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic USB2.0-CRW" rev 2.00/38.82 addr 3 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <Generic-, Multi-Card, 1.00> SCSI0 0/direct removable serial.0bda0138516388200000 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (b7929eff445098b7.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b ***** I really want to get wireless working with this thing so I hacked in the kernel and added the following patch: **** --- if_athn_pci.c.orig Thu Nov 15 06:55:19 2012 +++ if_athn_pci.c Thu Nov 15 06:55:37 2012 @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ { PCI_VENDOR_ATHEROS, PCI_PRODUCT_ATHEROS_AR2427 }, { PCI_VENDOR_ATHEROS, PCI_PRODUCT_ATHEROS_AR9227 }, { PCI_VENDOR_ATHEROS, PCI_PRODUCT_ATHEROS_AR9287 }, - { PCI_VENDOR_ATHEROS, PCI_PRODUCT_ATHEROS_AR9300 } + { PCI_VENDOR_ATHEROS, PCI_PRODUCT_ATHEROS_AR9300 }, + { PCI_VENDOR_ATHEROS, PCI_PRODUCT_ATHEROS_AR9485 } /* pjp */ }; int **** The card does get detected like so: Nov 15 07:32:12 saturn /bsd: athn0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9485" rev 0x01: apic 4 int 19 Nov 15 07:32:12 saturn /bsd: athn0: AR9485 rev 1 (1T1R), ROM rev 0, address 7c:e9:d3:4b:fc:4e However when I try to "ifconfig athn0 scan" the following messages appear: Nov 15 07:32:41 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:32:41 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:32:41 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:32:41 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:32:41 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:32:41 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:33:00 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:33:00 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:33:00 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:33:00 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:33:00 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:33:00 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:33:34 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:33:34 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:33:34 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:33:34 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Nov 15 07:33:34 saturn /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch Nov 15 07:33:34 saturn /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 Now a bit background on this netbook, I bought it early 2012 and it has no hardware switch on the chassis for the wireless like some other netbooks have them. Instead it has a function key and together with F3 the wireless is supposed to go on. Any hint how I can get this key to work? The wireless light should light up amber when the radio is turned on. I'd really like to use the internal wifi over buying some external dongle but I'm sure as a compromise I'll have to. Any hints on what's good to buy these days? Regards, -peter