From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 23:10:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F3A16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:10:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04EC943D54 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:10:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel.hyde@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so449372wri for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:10:52 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=t1RcOUy0Ec6p5pZPbcBnGuhyMy7kMZOCB4n2lBf/dNVxmOrju4Haahrg3WHMhJ2+rd0nkpMjTry4NeB5C9jlK5uocyUw4H+zzl63UcZuVYA/IpP1asSTQqceJ42J7WEXI4NiVJmzMO1fwtfFaOHOaNtBWYuETXIN07UyPNMVlkc= Received: by 10.54.79.11 with SMTP id c11mr89212wrb; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:10:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.39.46 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:10:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:10:52 +1100 From: Daniel Hyde To: Lukas Razik In-Reply-To: <265596555@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <265596555@web.de> cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgear WG311T wlan card with Atheros chipset doesnt work X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Hyde List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:10:53 -0000 I've also got one of these cards at home and have brought it up successfully before using the ath driver on my 5.3-release system (although my last few attempts failed, but possibly the AP/router was playing up --- I've noticed it does this sometimes). I don't boot into bsd at home much though, since I mostly use that system for gaming, so it's been a while since I've even tried to bring this card up, and I don't actually remember what I needed to do (but I was reading from the handbook, so theoretically it's all in there). But I *have* succeeded with the ath driver on a couple of occasions. I haven't managed to bring it up using DHCP though, nor could I bring up sk0 for my ethernet card using DHCP (although both lan and wireless work with DHCP in Windows). On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:00:50 +0100, Lukas Razik wrote: > > > Hi!!! > > > > > > 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 baord which works very good with 5.3-RELEASE after having many problems with prism54 cards and FreeBSD on other systems in the past... > > > > > > 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=0x820000 card=0xcd001385 chip=0x8013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > > > ... > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 > > OK. Thanks for this answere!!! > Because I don't want to change immediately to CURRENT I did a cvsup to RELENG_5_3 and then the ath driver recognized the Netgear WG311T but I've got an error (from ath_hal). (If someone wants to know the output, please ask.) > > ... > > Another thing I wanted to try is an Allnet 0281 wlan card with this driver: > http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/ > which works good on another CURRENT system and a prism54 card (I thought the Allnet 0281 has a prism chipset like the Allnet 0271)... > > But then the ath driver recognized the Allnet 0281 (which is not listed in the ath manpage) because it also has an Atheros AR5213 chip: > ath0@pci0:20:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3ab01186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > device = 'AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > and now it works fine!!! :-))) > Maybe these informations are useful for people who want to buy a new one... > > Lukas > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >