Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:44:49 GMT From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@mittelstaedt.us> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/157778: Broken doc link regarding Atheros products Message-ID: <201106112244.p5BMinBK052716@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201106112250.p5BMo8mX017592@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 157778 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Broken doc link regarding Atheros products >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 11 22:50:08 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ted Mittelstaedt >Release: 8.2-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: N/A >Description: On URL: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/hardware.html#WLAN and probably in many other areas of the FreeBSD documentation, the URL: http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp is referenced. This URL is broken due to the May 2011 purchase of Atheros by Qualcomm. The new URL that appears to be similar is: http://www.qca.qualcomm.com/technology/technology.php?nav1=47 Note that the old URL also appears to be in the man page for ath(4) Unfortunately the new URL does not seem to be a database lookup of which atheros chips are in aftermarket cards, so the supported WiFi list is now very lacking, as an end user cannot pull the model number of a PCMCIA wireless card and look it up in their database to see if it contains an Atheros chip. I did a bit of research and for what it's worth the D-Link DWA-552 and DWA-556 contain the Atheros 5416 and 5418 chips, respectively. I don't know if they work with this driver. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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