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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:07:10 +0000
From:      Francois Kritzinger <francoisk777@gmail.com>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DWL-G520 rev. b3 (AR5213 chipset)
Message-ID:  <3cc1a1cc0601180207l795883e7l@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43CD4E26.1000402@errno.com>
References:  <3cc1a1cc0601170605k77dc519cp@mail.gmail.com> <43CD4E26.1000402@errno.com>

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Cool, but will this patch work against 6.0-RELEASE?

On 17/01/06, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> wrote:
> Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is this card (DWL-G520 rev. b3  with the AR5213 chipset ) supported in
> > 6.0 yet? Because it doesn't appear to be:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > pciconf -lv:
> > ath0@pci0:6:0:        class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x3a131186 chip=3D0x00131=
68c rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
> >     vendor   =3D 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
> >     device   =3D 'AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
> >     class    =3D network
> >     subclass =3D ethernet
> >
> > dmesg:
> > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdffe0000-0xdffeffff irq 17 at device 6.0 on =
pci0
> > ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
> > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > If not, will it be sometime soon?
> >
> > Also, the reason I bought this card was because ath(4) explicitly says
> > that the DWL-G520 rev. b works in 5.4 and 6.0, which is a lie in the
> > case of rev. b3, so someone should update this manpage. Of course,
> > this was probably before D-LInk decided to upgrade this card's chipset
> > to the AR5213 (the manpage thinks this card has the AR5212 chipset).
>
> There's a hal out for test at www.freebsd.org/~sam; it should handle the
> part.  See previous postings from me to current@.
>
>         Sam
>
>
>



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