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Heads Up! age(4) added to base

Contributed by johan on from the new-and-shiny dept.

Kevin Lo (kevlo@) has added a driver for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet driver to OpenBSD. 

List:       openbsd-cvs
Subject:    CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
From:       Kevin Lo 
Date:       2009-01-16 5:00:34

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	kevlo@cvs.openbsd.org	2009/01/15 22:00:34

Modified files:
	sys/dev/pci    : files.pci 
Added files:
	sys/dev/pci    : if_age.c if_agereg.h 

Log message:
Add Attansic L1 gigabit Ethernet driver.

Written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD, ported to DragonFlyBSD
by Sepherosa Ziehau and then ported to OpenBSD by me.

ok dlg@
Please help test this driver.

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Comments

  1. By db (db) db@beastie.dk on

    Oh, now the Asus EEE 1000H nic is supported?

    This is great news!

    Comments

    1. By kevlo (220.128.136.52) on

      > Oh, now the Asus EEE 1000H nic is supported?
      >
      > This is great news!

      1000H uses Attansic L1E, not the L1.

      Comments

      1. By cruel (82.193.122.60) on

        > > Oh, now the Asus EEE 1000H nic is supported?
        > >
        > > This is great news!
        >
        > 1000H uses Attansic L1E, not the L1.

        FreeBSD's ale(4) supports L1E(AR8121) and L2E(AR8113/AR8114).

      2. By Anonymous Coward (70.173.173.121) on

        > > Oh, now the Asus EEE 1000H nic is supported?
        > >
        > > This is great news!
        >
        > 1000H uses Attansic L1E, not the L1.

        kevlo@ is also willing to port the L1E driver with a donation of the hardware:
        http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=123251304906419&w=2

  2. By Anonymous Coward (78.32.64.213) on

    Another NIC driver; how exciting.

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (85.19.213.88) on

      > Another NIC driver; how exciting.

      It actually is quite exciting. This NIC is pretty popular on many
      boards, including a few of mine. Up to now I've been using re(4)
      adapters but now I can use the on-board one. Nice!

    2. By Anonymous Coward (70.57.70.45) on

      > Another NIC driver; how exciting.

      Isn't it, though? I'll admit, I'm more excited when they add a wireless driver than a wired one, but hardware working is generally a good thing.

  3. By raw foo(d) (80.249.194.29) on

    Quite a while ago it was reported that reyk@ is working on ath(4).

    AR5424 is present in some EEE and Acer netbooks. Any progress?

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (98.127.110.254) on

      > Quite a while ago it was reported that reyk@ is working on ath(4).
      >
      > AR5424 is present in some EEE and Acer netbooks. Any progress?

      reyk@ has a business to run (and a phessler@ to manage ;), so I'm not sure what the status of that is. However, making out a check to "cash" and mailing it to him couldn't hurt :p

    2. By Anonymous Coward (81.90.7.187) on

      > Quite a while ago it was reported that reyk@ is working on ath(4).
      >
      > AR5424 is present in some EEE and Acer netbooks. Any progress?

      There're some quirks in linux driver's reset code not present in openbsd's. But I'm not a kernel developer, so it would be hard to find out what do we need.

  4. By doncipo (doncipo) doncipo@gmail.com on

    At last ! Great news ! Thank you very much !

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