From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 18:35:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DC516A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B1843D49 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:35:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.91] ([66.127.85.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i75IYuWi000384 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:34:16 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <50138.151.204.154.241.1090701435.squirrel@el.net> <1303.151.204.154.241.1090815511.squirrel@el.net> <49251.24.90.34.93.1091730138.squirrel@el.net> In-Reply-To: <49251.24.90.34.93.1091730138.squirrel@el.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408051134.16136.sam@errno.com> cc: kalin mintchev Subject: Re: ath card problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:35:01 -0000 On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:22 am, kalin mintchev wrote: > ok. for the last almost 3 weeks i've been trying to get the ath0 driver to > work properly with the dlink dwl-ag650 card i got for my t20 thinkpad with > 5.2.1. > it kinda works sometimes. that sometimes is driving me nuts. i understand > that there is the possibility that i'm really retarded and not being able > to make a simple piece of hardware work properly on this laptop. usually > that's not the case but for some reason this piece of hardware has been > very stubborn. i have to say that unfortunately it works with no problem > on a windows laptop with the windows driver. > > all that being said can somebody explain the outputs below. > ifconfig says it's associated but appears that it's not really. that > happens a lot. i tried 2 different access points. did reset the routers > about a dozen times. i'm back at the point where i'm about the rip this > card off the machine and trow it against the wall and then burn it until > it converts to a fluid... The dwl-ag650 card has a chip in it that requires a more up to date hal to operate well. Otherwise you should not get errors reseting the part but since the FreeBSD code is so ancient (probably a year behind the current state of Atheros support) it's likely that one of a zillion changes have dealt with the issue. I have asked for help in updating the Atheros code but gotten few responses (none of which have produced something committable). I am in the process of releasing yet another new hal and may have a few days to try and update the FreeBSD code to include it. Otherwise you can always use the ndis support to run the windows driver. Sam