From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 17:34:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B542716A423 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:34:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F129743D6D for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:34:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.248] (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k1OHYeo7071853 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:34:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <43FF4472.4000505@errno.com> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:37:54 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florent Thoumie References: <43FDE57A.7040504@citi.umich.edu> <200602240830.42905.flz@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200602240830.42905.flz@xbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, cel@citi.umich.edu Subject: Re: wireless on a laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:34:50 -0000 Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:40, Chuck Lever wrote: >> hi all- >> >> i have a D-Link DWL-G650M PCCard (Atheros) and an IBM T40 laptop. they >> don't want to talk with each other. >> >> the T40 has a built in Aironet, but the driver generates "received 194 >> bytes, expected 196 bytes" messages in the system log, and i can't get >> it to work. >> >> so i bought this Atheros-based super-G card. >> >> the problem is the cardbus infrastructure doesn't seem to recognize the >> card. even if i "kldload if_ath". >> >> i'm new to FreeBSD, so any guidance here would be greatly appreciated. > > Atheros Super-G cards are not (yet?) supported. > > I think your best bet is to use ndis(4) (see ndisgen(8)). > Super-G is a buzzword for various optional features; the cards work fine when not using those features. Sam