Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:32:18 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: "Luke St.Clair" <run_faster@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netgear wg311T and ath driver attaching Message-ID: <42AAF5F2.4010805@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY101-F326DF8541FDB5F25FF4834EEFE0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY101-F326DF8541FDB5F25FF4834EEFE0@phx.gbl>
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Luke St.Clair wrote: > I'm attempting to use the netgear wg311T card, which I bought since the > ath man page and docs said it is supported under FBSD. > > I'm using the 5.4 release. > ath works on 5.x but I've seen much improvement in 6.x. > I did: > cd /sys/modules/ath; > make; make install > kldload if_ath > > and dmesg presents: > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdf000000-0xdf00ffff irq 18 at device 8.0 on pci1 > ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 > > Which, from googling, seems to indicate the driver in -CURRENT will > probably work. Is this true? > Yes, I'm using one on -CURRENT > If so, is it possible to just download/compile the ath driver from > -CURRENT? If so, how? > The driver is part of the system, you don't have to download/compile anything. Simply put this in your /boot/loader.conf if_ath_load="YES" > Or should I be able to make this work on a release system? > Yes, see above. -- Regards, Doug
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