The Atheros driver correctly picks up the presence of the card, and we can attach it to wlan0: ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff at device 0.0 on pci3 ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0 wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:25:56:0c:4e:88 However, since the card is not actually powered on (soft power switch that does not work under FreeBSD), we can't use it -- scan results (either via ifconfig or wpa_supplicant) in: ath0: device timeout ath0: device timeout ath0: device timeout ath0: device timeout ath0: device timeout ath0: device timeout Additional information: Kernel config file: (reproducible under GENERIC as well) http://puck.nether.net/~majdi/acer/AO751h acpidump -dv: http://puck.nether.net/~majdi/acer/acpidump-dv dmesg: http://puck.nether.net/~majdi/acer/dmesg3.txt pciconf -l: http://puck.nether.net/~majdi/acer/pciconf-l wmistat: http://puck.nether.net/~majdi/acer/wmistat Fix: Works under Linux 2.6, using the acer-acpi module: http://repo.or.cz/w/acer_acpi.git/tree Card is automatically powered on boot under Linux 2.6.x kernels, and functions correctly, using that module. FreeBSD has an ACPI-WMI module now, as well as ACPI modules for other vendors, and appears to just needs an implementation of the Acer bits. I am available for testing. How-To-Repeat: Take any soft WiFi power Acer netbook or notebook, add FreeBSD (-HEAD is probably required since the ath driver in 7.x and 8.x did not work without patching.)
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^Triage: to submitter: is this aging PR still relevant?