Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:43:14 +0000 From: resonant evil <air.lightz@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi all.. Novice user having woes getting Atheros card up in FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <1b62a7390601271143i7c44d8d9n4d76a34600e86901@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1b62a7390601271057q6ad3abe1kf230d5de0a1db202@mail.gmail.com> References: <1b62a7390601261653j4c54bfddp9db43a5ce59e862c@mail.gmail.com> <1b62a7390601262010v59bd2651id3bd14072a453342@mail.gmail.com> <20060127093547.GB2217@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1b62a7390601271057q6ad3abe1kf230d5de0a1db202@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi guys Here is where I am at now. Before we start, heres a DETAILED link to my exact wireless card: http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=3D279 A nice guy named Eric from Germany e-mailed me with some information, saying to check out this website: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2005-October/007243.html He thought that maybe the fix for his card might work for mine, but it doesn't appear to have.. Here is exactly what I did I copied that source code from http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3D8966525 for the 'ar5k.c' file and compiled it. I then went to /usr/src/sys/dev/dev/ath and edited the 'if_ath.c' file. Correct me if I'm wrong but I was just supposed to change that one line of 'return EINVAL' to 'return 0' right? So I did that, saved it, and re-compiled the kernel fully, installed it, and rebooted, but I don't see even the slightest bit of info about the card still when the system boots up, and I definitely don't have an ath0 device still. Is there something like an 'lspci' command in Linux where I can get all the information from the card by probing it or whatever? FreeBSD can't detect this thing for the life of it :( Did I do anything wrong in those instructions? Is there anything I can do? Thanks :( On 1/27/06, resonant evil <air.lightz@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, someone told me about this exact card, I guess he figured it used > Atheros so that meant it would work.. I wish I was so lucky. > > A nice fellow from Germany sent me an e-mail with a link to patching a fi= le > in the kernel, but I'm not sure how to do it.. But I guess I'll give it a > try > > Does anyone else have any other advice for me here? Is there anything I c= an > do or did I just purchase an absolute waste of money? > > Thanks guys > > > On 1/27/06, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2006-Jan-26 20:10:56 -0800, resonant evil wrote: > > >Hi there.. So I can't use this wireless card at all right now? Damn > why > > >did I buy this thing then.. People from the mailing list showed me thi= s > > one > > >so I ordered it :-( > > > > That exact card, or that model number? One major problem with PC > > hardware is that vendors regularly "update" the electronics without > > changing the model designations. This doesn't affect Windoze users > > because they provide updated drivers to match. > > > > -- > > Peter Jeremy > > > >
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