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Subject: Re: ath problems on 7.0 with ThinkPad X61s
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Dan Langille wrote:
> Dan Langille wrote:
>> Folks:
>>
>> The ThinkPad X61s has arrived. It has 7.0-RELEASE installed on it.
>>
>> ifconfig ath0 <== never returns to the command line:
>>
>> from dmesg:
>>
>> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, 
>> RF5413)
>>
>> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf7f00000-0xf7f0ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on 
>> pci3
>> ath0: [ITHREAD]
>> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
>> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx <== dunno why, but I masked 
>> those
>> ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2
>>
>>
>> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 
>> 1500
>>         ether 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx
>>         inet 0.0.0.16 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255
>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>>         status: no carrier
>>         ssid "" channel 165 (5825 Mhz 11a)
>>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 scanvalid 32767 bgscan
>>         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11a 4.5 roam:rate11a 
>> 12 burst
>>
>>
>>
>> # uname -a
>> FreeBSD laptop.unixathome.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun 
>> Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008     
>> root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> Oh, and this:
> 
> ath0@pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x058a1014 chip=0x1014168c 
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     device     = 'AR5212 Atheros AR5212 802.11abg wireless'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> 

I have the exact same card in a T61p and it works for me.  I do load it 
as a module though and am running 7 stable from March 1. I don't know if 
that makes a difference.


Dan Olson