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OpenBSD and AR8171
Hi,
I've successfully installed OpenBSD 6.1 on my Lenovo Z710. Unfortunately, there is no support (or is it?) for my Atheros Qualcomm chipset AR8171 - 10/100/1000 NIC. dmesg shows "... not configured" fw_update doesn't help I've browsed through the documentation and openbsd mailing list and found this Some of the folks claim that they've taken the if_alc.c from FreeBSD, which supports AR8171, port it to OpenBSD and it works. My question is, has anyone tried it? Maybe there is another way? I'm not C-literate yet, so I can't investigate and correct the mistakes some devs point, but the last trail breaks off, so I might be forced to try anyway |
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Unfortunately, I know this from your post. So technically the only thing I could do is build the kernel from source modifying the if_alc.c?
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Well...this seems like an easy job...
Is this really the only option? |
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This is not a break/fix support issue. This is a development issue. From my perspective, it appears to me that you have several options:
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I have to ask - considering what's required here, is it really worth your while getting an ethernet adaptor working on a laptop? I assume it has a wifi adaptor?
uhub(4) seems to detail some supported USB ethernet devices: Code:
Wired network interfaces aue(4) ADMtek AN986/ADM8511 Pegasus family 10/100 USB Ethernet device axe(4) ASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device axen(4) ASIX Electronics AX88179 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device cdce(4) USB Communication Device Class Ethernet device cue(4) CATC USB-EL1201A USB Ethernet device kue(4) Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B USB Ethernet device mos(4) MosChip MCS7730/7830/7832 10/100 USB Ethernet device smsc(4) SMSC LAN95xx 10/100 USB Ethernet device udav(4) Davicom DM9601 10/100 USB Ethernet device ure(4) RealTek RTL8152/RTL8153 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device url(4) Realtek RTL8150L 10/100 USB Ethernet device urndis(4) USB Remote NDIS Ethernet device |
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Thanks for your replies Gents, much obliged!
jggimi, nr 4 is not an option, at least not now nr 3 would be nice to even make contact with such company for further networking and community, but there are none in Poland, at least officially. Strange, since I know there are some developers and people working with/on pf. nr 2 I'll start with that nr 1 I'll try independently of nr 2 maybe I'll learn something before I end up in despair cynwulf, well, it's not a matter of functionality because I'm pretty sure wifi nic is enough 99% of the time. That 1% is that I sometimes do big backup to my NAS using eth - it's much quicker (1 to 1gbit). The real problem though is my inner perfection that suffers when it's not all working as it should. Last edited by beiroot; 20th May 2017 at 06:21 AM. Reason: grammar, typo |
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