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.
