Where can I find and install an AR9271 driver for the latest NetBSD? The target machine does not have Internet access and I need to setup the WiFi dongle first.
I only found this: https://www.daemon-systems.org/man/athn.4.html
UPDATE: wpa_supplicant was already written, but I didn't see my device.
When I plug in the dongle it's shown as:
ugen0 at uhub4 port 8
ugen0: Mediatek 802.11 n WLAN, rev 2.01/00, addr 2
ifconfig shows only re0 and lo0 interfaces.
UPDATE: I saw on some Linux forums that the dongle uses an Atheros chip, but I checked in Windows and see Ralink. The ral driver is also integrated in NetBSD, but the situation doesn't change - I see no ra~ device in dmesg.boot.
Answer
I just investigated this, and from what I can gather athk has only recently been added, to NetBSD 7 also called NetBSD Current (and not NetBSD 6 which I'm assuming is what you're running?), which was the development version of NetBSD until today more or less, where it was released, though it hasn't been announced yet.
In 7 it should be part of the generic kernel, so you shouldn't need to load the driver manually or anything. So I guess I'd suggest either upgrading to fx. 7 RC3 or reinstalling 7 RC3 from scratch now, or maybe wait a few days for it to be publically released and an ISO for that becomes available. Then, hopefully, it would just work automatically.
If you wish, you can get NetBSD 7 RC3 here.
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