Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:46:50 +0300 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbsds@pelleg.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: ath(4) for D-Link G520M on 5.5-R? Message-ID: <20060602184650.GA86617@atoz.libagent.org>
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I just got the D-Link DWL-G520M PCI wireless card. I'm not interested in
super-G or any other post-802.11b feature in particular; the reason I got
it was because the marketing materials hinted that (at least some revision
of it) had the Atheros chipset.
It isn't recognized at all by ath(4) on 5.5. Here is the pciconf -lv
section:
none0@pci0:14:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a681186 chip=0x0020168c
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
The hardware version, as marked on the box, is A1, and firmware version
1.0.0.28.
I also tried ndis(4). I downloaded the driver from:
http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=422&sec=0
and used the files net5513.inf and ar5513.sys.
At first, ndiscvt complained about the following line (syntax error)
"D:ARAI(A;;GA;;;BA)(A;;GA;;;SY)(A;CI;GA;;;IU)"
which I commented out. It then completed. But after making, installing, and
kldloading ndis, I see absolutely no output from ndis.
Any hints? Is this more likely to work under 6.1?
--
Dan Pelleg
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