[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is the Atheros AR9462 WiFi card supported?

Till Wegmueller toasterson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 11:42:45 UTC 2021


Hey Chris.

Unfortunately not. Atheros 9 series support is lacking.
But the driver from FreeBSD should be very easily adaptable.

If you make the ATH9k work I definetly will give OI a spin again on my 
Librem laptop :)

-Till

On 21.01.21 00:12, Chris wrote:
> On 2021-01-20 18:23, John D Groenveld wrote:
>> In message <b3e85c4aab4433d3bbfc44fe635caf71 at bsdos.info>, Chris writes:
>>> Ive got an Atheros AR9462 WiFi card in my fresh OI install.
>>> Is it supported? If not, is there a driver similar I can hack
>>> on?
>>
>> No and maybe:
>> <URL:http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/manifest/0/driver%2Fnetwork%2Fath%400.5.11%2C5.11-2020.0.1.20243%3A20210120T012047Z> 
>>
>>
>> You'll want to read the illumos DDI/DDK docs:
>> <URL:https://illumos.org/books/wdd/partintro-1.html#partintro-1>
> Thanks! Let's see if I can parlay any of my FreeBSD experience into
> an OI success. :-)
> 
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>> John
>> groenveld at acm.org
>>
> --Chris



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