Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:04:30 +0300 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbsds@pelleg.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath(4) for D-Link G520M on 5.5-R? Message-ID: <20060602190429.GA20996@atoz.libagent.org> In-Reply-To: <38961.192.168.0.10.1149274473.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> References: <20060602184650.GA86617@atoz.libagent.org> <38961.192.168.0.10.1149274473.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:54:33AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, June 2, 2006 11:46 am, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > I just got the D-Link DWL-G520M PCI wireless card. I'm not interested > > in super-G or any other post-802.11b feature in particular; the > > reason I got it was because the marketing materials hinted that (at > > least some revision of it) had the Atheros chipset. > > > > It isn't recognized at all by ath(4) on 5.5. Here is the pciconf -lv > > section: > > Check the output of dmesg when you kldload the ath modules. That will > tell you the version of the chips on the NIC. > No output whatsoever. Tried both with ath and ath_hal compiled in, and also as modules. wlan was always compiled in. > You should also consider upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, as a lot of > improvements were made to the wireless stack, over an above the > improvements in 5.4/5.5. > > > none0@pci0:14:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a681186 > > chip=0x0020168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications > > Inc.' class = network subclass = ethernet > > > ---- > Freddie Cash > fcash@ocis.net > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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