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Date:      Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:50:53 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Lukas Razik <lukas@razik.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netgear WG311T wlan card with Atheros chipset doesnt work
Message-ID:  <20050309155053.GA30109@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <265418751@web.de>
References:  <265418751@web.de>

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:28:42PM +0100, Lukas Razik wrote:
> Hi!!!
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> I've bought a Netgear WG311T wlan card with an Atheros chipset (not that =
one with Texas Instruments chipset) _especially_ for my VIA EPIA VE5000 bao=
rd which works very good with 5.3-RELEASE after having many problems with p=
rism54 cards and FreeBSD on other systems in the past...
>=20
> But after loading the if_ath kernel module nothing happens...
> There's no new device and 'pciconf -lv' only lists that:
> ...
> none1@pci0:20:0:	class=3D0x820000 card=3D0xcd001385 chip=3D0x8013168c rev=
=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
>                                 vendor   =3D 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
> ...
>=20
> I thought that it _must_ work because under Windows SiSoft Sandra listed =
that it has an Atheros AR5212 chip...
> Now I've looked at the card and it's an AR5213A.
>=20
> Is it possible to get it work under FreeBSD? Maybe CURRENT???

With possiable exception of the pre-N products, all the Atheros chipsets
should work under CURRENT.

-- Brooks

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