From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 16:10:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E0C16A4CF for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:10:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974F643D4C for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:10:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.92] ([66.127.85.92]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j0QGAFWi017988 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <41F7C0FF.1090900@errno.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:10:39 -0800 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aidan Whyte References: <001a01c50395$a578b950$2201040a@moriarty> In-Reply-To: <001a01c50395$a578b950$2201040a@moriarty> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supported 802.11a pcmcia cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:10:20 -0000 Aidan Whyte wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm back to bug you a bit more unfortunately :) > > I've been looking at 802.11a pc-cards for freebsd, but I'm rather confused as to what exactly is > supported. Under the ath driver, there's a list ( > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE&format=html ) > of supported cards, with a note at the end saying an up to date list can be found here ( > http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts ). The confusion arises because far more cards > appear in the atheros list - in fact, it appears like it may be the entire atheros range of wireless > products. > > So, is the list in the ath man page exhaustive for currently supported ath cards, or should I work > off the atheros.com link when checking to see if cards are supported? Any Atheros-based PCI/Cardbus card currently in the retail channels will work with the driver in current (though I just saw an add for a card with the MIMO/TGh part that I haven't tested). The support in 5.3-RELEASE is >1 year old and does not handle some of the more recent parts. I have no plan to backport code to 5.x because the changes are massive and would break API's that are frozen for the life of the 5.x releases. Sam