Dell vostro 3360 : which driver for Atheros AR8161 card ?

[paco]

Maybe this question should concern a FreeBSD forum but i try here in case.

I am installing PCBSD 9.0 using the USB x64 boot-only image on a Dell Vostro 3360. The installation process fails when selecting the installation type to "Network/Internet" : the ftp mirror option is greyed and can not be selected.

When opening an xterm i can see that no ethernet card is up (only lo0).
It seems that the drivers are not loaded for my ethernet card.

# pciconf -lv
 ...
none2@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x02091028 chip=0x0032168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
  vendor   = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
  device   = 'AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter'
  class     = network
none3@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x055c1028 chip=0x10911969 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
  vendor   = 'Atheros Communications'
  class     = network
  subclass = ethernet

The last card seems to be an Atheros Gigabit Ethernet AR8161*card.

1) is the driver available for this card ?
2) how can i find/install it for the PCBSD installation boot process ?

Thanks for your help.

[drulavigne]

It looks like it is the new alx driver:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg190284.html

We'll poke about to see if anyone in FreeBSD is working on porting the driver.

[paco]

Thank you.

I also opened a thread in FreeBSD hardware forum: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=34010.

It should be the best place to know how if someone is working on the AR8161 or AR9485 drivers.