On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 09:06:44AM +0100, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an Acer Aspire One 722 netbook. It looks like this with the GENERIC.MP > kernel:
> 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 */ > }; This isn't enough to get AR8485 chips working. The driver lacks support for these chips at present, which is why it doesn't attach yet. I have one of these as well and am trying to get it to work but haven't had success yet. Once I've got something worth testing I'll share it. > 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 This is a red herring. The switch is working fine but switch detection has a bug. This has been fixed in -current already. But additional work is required to get this device working. I'd recommend using any supported USB wifi device for the time being.