From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 09:46:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E4816A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:46:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lorna.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-85.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D17243D39 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:46:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.circlesquared.com [127.0.0.1]) iAP9k61j051911; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:46:14 GMT (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <41A5A9DE.2060302@circlesquared.com> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:46:06 +0000 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dundar Turker References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't know what else to do - NetGEAR WG311 54Mbps PCI card not recognized X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:46:24 -0000 Dundar Turker wrote: > Hi There, > > I installed FreeBSD 5.3 from CD and later downloaded RELENG_5_3 from a FreeBSD CVS site, then added ath and ath_hal as devices in the kernel configuration file. I generated the new kernel and rebooted the machine with it successfully. However, still I cannot get the kernel to recognize my WG311 NetGEAR PCI card. I searched the net for possible solutions people provided but found none... There are a number of people repoting the same driver (or configuration) problem but there is no answer I could find. > > I am very desperate now and not sure where to go from here... Could you please help to get this wireless network adapter to work. I looked into the output from dmesg and there is not even a word to show it was seen by the kernel. > This is becoming a FAQ. The chipset changed in midstream from atheros to Texas Instruments. You need to use the NDIS compatibility stuff in 5.3 to make this work. It's very annoying. Peter. -- the circle squared network systems and software http://www.circlesquared.com