Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:48:59 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cardbus Atheros 5212 and Dell laptop(s)... Message-ID: <200410201348.59759.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20041020183841.42759.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041020183841.42759.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 20 October 2004 01:38 pm, scott renna wrote: > Andrew, > > Just saw your post and was wondering how you were able > to get the Dlink-G520 to work. I'm running 5.2.1 > currently and tried to add additional devices into my > kernel according to a post I found on the subject: > > they mention to add: > > device ath_hal # Dlink Support > device hal # Dlink card support > > and recompile the kernel however my 5.2 says it > doesn't know what hal is. have you gotten that dlink > to work on 5.2.1 or just 5.3? > > -scott > Replace "device hal" with "device ath". :-) Dr. Seuss could have had such fun with a kernel config file! Also, if you comment out unused hardware devices, make sure you didn't comment out "device wlan". (yep, this is the mistake I made.) Best of luck, Andrew Gould
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