Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:55:00 +1000 From: Daniel Hyde <daniel.hyde@gmail.com> To: Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless hardware support Message-ID: <c7f6f0f205042617553a82a382@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED805A2C67B@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> References: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED805A2C67B@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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I have had some degree of success with the Netgear WG311T (note the T on the end -- this is a very different beast from the humble WG311).=20 I've brought it up a couple of times at a ridiculously slow speed (1Mb/s), then changed some setting to try to get a faster connection, forgot what I changed, and haven't been able to bring it up since. But I *have* had it up using the ath driver. Once or twice. Slowly. I mostly use that machine for gaming, so rarely boot it to freebsd, so haven't had much motivation to try again since. FWIW, at the time it was running 5.3-RELEASE. On 4/27/05, Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> wrote: > I recently purchased a Netgear WG311 card based on the fact that the > manpage for ath(4) says it is a supported card. As it turns out, at > least version 2 (the version I had) of this card is not supported - it > appears to be based on a Texas Instruments chipset that it not > supported by anything other than Windows. I was able to use the card > with the ndis wrapper, however it didn't work very well; console > messages stated that the driver was buggy and in fact my system would > panic randomly with the driver loaded. >=20 > I returned the card this afternoon and swapped it out for another > card, a D-Link DWL-G520. While this particular model number is not > listed on the ath(4) manpage, it is listed as a supported ath(4) > device on the 5.3-RELEASE hardware notes for i386. Also, it is listed > at the atheros webpage linked from that same document. However, at > least revision B3 of this card ALSO is not supported by the ath > driver. I get the following error message when I try to load the > driver: >=20 > ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff irq 16 at device 6.0 on pc= i5 > ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 > device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 >=20 > I am able to use this card via the ndis wrapper, however I get > numerous console messages like these (I renamed the device ath with > ndiscvt): >=20 > ath0: set filter failed: 45 > ath0: couldn't change DS config to 2417000kHz: 19 > NDIS: open file /compat/ndis/regAdd.txt failed: 2 >=20 > I fixed the latter by touching the file. I have no idea what it is > supposed to do - there is no file by that name on the CD that came > with the card and I am not sure what it is for. >=20 > Interestingly, the DWL-G520 is supposed to be an 802.11b/g part only > however the NDIS driver 'detects' 802.11a modes. Also the NDIS driver > does not detect the 108Mbps 'Super' mode that the card advertises on > the box. >=20 > Thankfully, no panics yet with the D-Link card and the NDIS driver. >=20 > Does anyone have a suggestion for a PCI wireless card that is > natively supported by FreeBSD? >=20 > -Will >=20 > -- > Will Saxon > Systems Programmer, Network Services > University of Florida Department of Housing > Phone: (352) 392-2171 x10148 > Email: wills@housing.ufl.edu > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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