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Cc: "M. Vale" <maurovale@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: HI, I have a laptop with the Atheros AR5006EG
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Tom Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:19 +0000, M. Vale wrote:
>   
>> HI, I have a laptop with the Atheros AR5006EG, i've saw that it is possible
>> to use the AR5007 with the madwifi drivers in FreeBSD 7.
>>
>> Anyone Knows a why or can give me directions where I can find if it is
>> possible to put the Atheros AR5006EG working in FreeBSD 7 ?
>>
>> Thank you
>>     
>
> man 4 ath
> ..
> HARDWARE
>      The ath driver supports all Atheros Cardbus or PCI cards, except
> those
>      that are based on the AR5005VL chipset.
>
>      A list of cards that are supported can be found at
>      http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp.
>
> Have you tried ``ifconfig ath0 up''?
>   

Unfortunately the man page is now somewhat out of date and there are 
Atheros parts in the channels that are not supported by the hal in cvs.  
However many additional parts are supported by the test build found at:

http://www.freebsd.org/~sam

But there are still other parts that not supported by this hal and I 
have no idea if and/or when they ever will be.  Sorry, but Atheros 
stopped caring about open source users after certain folks left the company.

    Sam