From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 19:04:30 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 9172916A4A5 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpelleg@atoz.libagent.org) Received: from atoz.libagent.org (atoz.libagent.org [69.55.228.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B14643D4C for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:04:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpelleg@atoz.libagent.org) Received: by atoz.libagent.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 250BC9CF; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:04:30 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:04:30 +0300 From: Dan Pelleg To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060602190429.GA20996@atoz.libagent.org> References: <20060602184650.GA86617@atoz.libagent.org> <38961.192.168.0.10.1149274473.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <38961.192.168.0.10.1149274473.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 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 19:04:30 -0000 On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:54:33AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > 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. > No output whatsoever. Tried both with ath and ath_hal compiled in, and also as modules. wlan was always compiled in. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"