On 4/24/06, Alex Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just to throw a couple of things in, I too am very ineterested with > this work because I run a WPA2-PSK wireles network at home and my > laptop has an atheros cardbus card in it. For me, that is one of the > last reason that I am currently still running FreeBSD (6.0). > > I was also wondering about the atheros driver and how to get it,
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/ath/ > including (unless I am being incredibly numb) where to put is exactly > in the tree - src/sys/dev? And what about the contrib files, in src/ ? You can put it _anywhere_ you want, and make the modules in ath/ath BTW, don't forget to add 'option INVARIANTS' in you kernel config file > > Hopefully having that driver in the kernel will stop my machine > hanging on startup if the cardbus card is inserted...I think its > getting mis-deteced as an rl device because it looks like its trying Do you have an on-board rl(4) card? Then please apply following patch first (before the 802_11 patch), if you stick to PREVIEW: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/cbb-apr-09.diff If you prefer to stay on HEAD, then: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/cbb-apr-23.diff > to attach to it and thats the last thing on the console. Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die