Atheros

[Peter Hofer]

Hi Marcin,

> I could not find any atheros options in the kernel config in svn
> repository.
> Is there any particular reason for that?

DesktopBSD's kernel configuration is a slightly modified GENERIC kernel that 
contains only modifications that can't be done with a loader.conf entry or by 
loading a kernel module. We try to avoid using a very specific kernel 
configuration to prevent side effects that usually don't occur with GENERIC 
kernels and therefore can be hard to reproduce or fix (especially if they 
affect very unusual hardware combinations only).

So don't worry, Atheros 802.11 support is included and enabled by default, but 
since the driver is available as a kernel module, we load it at boot time 
instead of compiling it into the kernel.

Peter