From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] gnu: Enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI. Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 20:20:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20170202202006.03597708@scratchpost.org> References: <20170201233531.2640-1-david@craven.ch> <20170201233531.2640-7-david@craven.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZMvc-0007KV-DY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:20:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZMvX-0006Ev-F0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:20:20 -0500 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:35292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZMvX-0006Dn-80 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:20:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel Hi David, I have an Atheros AR9285 in GuixSD and it works. /sys/class/net/wlp2s0/device/driver says it's using the driver ath9k PCI. On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 18:07:22 +0100 David Craven wrote: > I'm having trouble finding information. The opened atheros firmware is > only for the AR7010 and AR9271 USB dongles if I understand correctly? > The other thing that was opened are the C headers including the > register definitions for a subset of the AR9300 chipset, but it would > still require implementing the firmware to be useful to linux-libre? I don't think the firmware needs to be uploaded at all to the AR9285 device. It probably does have a firmware on-chip - I don't know. Anyway, it worked out of the box without any extra firmware files on my computer.