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Date:      Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:13:46 -0800
From:      George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Andrew Elmore <aelmore@interwoven.com>
Subject:   Re: Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade
Message-ID:  <17296.65370.236005.581452@satchel.alerce.com>
In-Reply-To: <4390CD9D.7010902@errno.com>
References:  <20051202164844.GB22464@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20051202175459.2ED095D09@ptavv.es.net> <20051202180306.GE20695@interwoven.com> <17296.45250.232884.375246@satchel.alerce.com> <4390CD9D.7010902@errno.com>

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Sam Leffler writes:
 > George Hartzell wrote:
 > > Andrew Elmore writes:
 > >  > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:54:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
 > >  > > And, it my ThinkPad would recognize an ath card, I'd try to do just
 > >  > > that. IBM restricts you to the mini-PCI cards that it sells. (Grr!)
 > >  > 
 > >  > FWIW, I replaced the iwi (Intel 2200) in my Thinkpad T42p with an IBM
 > >  > branded Atheros card from Netgate, which works fine in my laptop.
 > >  > 
 > >  > http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=219&osCsid=bbc37ce3707fc6a08ba3914eeb3f540f
 > > 
 > > That looks like it's using the 5213 chipset.
 > > 
 > > Are you running CURRENT, or STABLE, or???
 > > 
 > > Are you using it with the ndis drivers, or the native ath driver? 
 > > 
 > > The ath man page on STABLE doesn't mention working with the 5213
 > > chipset, and google/my-memory also finds comments about the current
 > > HAL not supporting it.
 > 
 > 5213 is really a feature set.  The documentation talks about 5212 
 > support which is sufficient.  The 6.x hal supports all the currently 
 > available pci/cardbus parts EXCEPT for the latest 
 > single-chip/PCI-Express parts.  Those parts are supported in the hal I 
 > have out at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam.  No idea if/when I'll commit 
 > the hal and related mods to cvs.
 > 
 > > 
 > > Is there something newer out there?
 > 
 > "something", "newer"?

Thanks for the authoritative answer!

Sorry for the poorly specified question at the end, I was asking about
a newer HAL or other kernel components than what I have in 6.0-STABLE,
thinking that might explain my my doc said 5212 but people were
running with a "5213 chipset".  Your explanation above straightened me
out.

g.



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