From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 06:41:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D650416A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 06:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grande.el.net (NS2.EL.NET [68.165.89.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 226EA43D1F for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 06:41:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: (qmail 20452 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2004 06:47:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO www.el.net) (127.0.0.1) by grande.el.net with SMTP; 15 Aug 2004 06:47:53 -0000 Received: from 141.155.23.4 (SquirrelMail authenticated user kalin) by el.net with HTTP; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:47:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49169.141.155.23.4.1092552473.squirrel@el.net> In-Reply-To: <58673.68.165.89.73.1091738255.squirrel@el.net> References: <50138.151.204.154.241.1090701435.squirrel@el.net> <1303.151.204.154.241.1090815511.squirrel@el.net> <49251.24.90.34.93.1091730138.squirrel@el.net> <200408051134.16136.sam@errno.com> <58673.68.165.89.73.1091738255.squirrel@el.net> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:47:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "kalin mintchev" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: ath card problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 06:41:51 -0000 hi all.. ok... this ath thing wont be anymore. if i see one more hal status 3 i'll probably pass out. i bought this card a year ago to use it with this machine. then waited for a year to get the ath driver ported to bsd. but i can't stand this cutting off anymore. on weekends i can only work on a wireless lan that my friend upstairs lets me use. but i'm losing to much time in resetting, rebooting and waiting for this card to reset itself to be actually able to do my work. and i lose a lot of work when working remotely whenever this card decides to reset itself or just dies all the time with the hal status 3 crap.. apparently this isn't going to be solved any time soon. so please, please recommend the best choice for an a/b/g card that will work smoothly on a thinkpad running 5.2.1. it doesn't have to be 'special'. just a working one. i did read the list of chips supported in the handbook but i need some real experience recommendations because according to that information my card is supported too but in my experience it's not really... i'd sincerely appreciate any information of which are the cards that will work with minimum or no hassle at all. thank you