From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 18:54:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B753F16A442 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546F143D45 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:54:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A0A8A0050 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 43534-10-49 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.sd73.bc.ca (unknown [10.10.10.17]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36BE8A0047 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.sd73.bc.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191869000611 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 192.168.0.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fcash) by webmail.sd73.bc.ca with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38961.192.168.0.10.1149274473.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060602184650.GA86617@atoz.libagent.org> References: <20060602184650.GA86617@atoz.libagent.org> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:54:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" To: stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Cc: Subject: Re: ath(4) for D-Link G520M on 5.5-R? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fcash@ocis.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:54:47 -0000 On Fri, June 2, 2006 11:46 am, Dan Pelleg wrote: > 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: Check the output of dmesg when you kldload the ath modules. That will tell you the version of the chips on the NIC. You should also consider upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, as a lot of improvements were made to the wireless stack, over an above the improvements in 5.4/5.5. > none0@pci0:14:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a681186 > chip=0x0020168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications > Inc.' class = network subclass = ethernet ---- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net