Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:41:33 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Andrew Elmore <aelmore@interwoven.com> Subject: Re: Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade Message-ID: <4390CD9D.7010902@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <17296.45250.232884.375246@satchel.alerce.com> References: <20051202164844.GB22464@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20051202175459.2ED095D09@ptavv.es.net> <20051202180306.GE20695@interwoven.com> <17296.45250.232884.375246@satchel.alerce.com>
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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"? Sam
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