9th nonblog

Xorg is a bit of a pain in the ass and a bug in the NV server seems to make my mouse invisible.

The update from 7.0 RC2 to RELEASE was beautifully smooth.

my RA/RAL 2860 chipset wireless card is not working


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at least acpi works

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got sound to load by running kldload snd*




pcm0: <NVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xfebd8000-0xfebdbfff irq 9 at device 16.1 on pci0
pcm0: [ITHREAD]
pcm0: hdac_widget_connection_parse: nid=18 WARNING: zero cnid entnum=4 j=2 index=0 entries=8 found=2 res=0x21002211
pcm0: <HDA Codec: Analog Devices AD1986A>
pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20071129_0050>



I'll add snd_hda to my loader.conf and see what happens.

Added snd_hda to my kernel and pulled out my RT2860 now wifi is working.

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[phuket] /etc> sudo /usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c wpa.conf -iath0
Trying to associate with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx (SSID='xx' freq=2412 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:18:84:1b:72:xx [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]