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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:25:47 +0100
From:      Glyn Tebbutt <d3c3it-linux@ntlworld.com>
To:        Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ath driver within 5.4-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <430259DB.1040901@ntlworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <1124227117.78094.18.camel@genius1.i.cz>
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Michal Mertl wrote:
> Glyn Tebbutt wrote:
> 
>>Michal Mertl wrote:
>>
>>>I don't know if 5.4 supports 11g but it I know it doesn't support too
>>>much advanced authentication mechanisms (WPA).
>>>
>>>I believe you need not only ath and ath_hal in the kernel config file
>>>but also wlan and some ath_rate module (one of ath_rate_onoe,
>>>ath_rate_amrr or ath_rate_sample). The recommended rate module is
>>>ath_rate_sample.
>>>
>>>Why do you compile the modules statically into the kernel? Modules
>>>should work too.
>>>
>>
>>My other cards on linux dont support WPA yet anyway so I'm using WEP atm
>>(yes I know its crappy and insecure:()
>>I'm new to freebsd so im not exactly sure how everything works yet, so
>>the kernel config builds all the stuff you need into the kernel but
>>modules for everything else is still compiled?
> 
> 
> Yes. By default all the modules are always compiled and installed
> (in /boot/kernel/*.ko).
> 
> 
>>because on my 6.0-BETA 2 ath module doesn't exists :?
>>so in theory which module's do I need to load
> 
> 
> Modules for network cards are called if_$cardname(.ko). So to load
> ath(4) support you'd issue 'kldload if_ath'. The linker loads whatever
> other modules are required for function of the module which aren't
> compiled in or already loaded (so ath would load wlan, ath_rate and
> ath_hal).
> 
> Michal
> 
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Thanks very much Michal, I'll go and try again
btw I found my error's
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2004-October/009041.html
yay for mailinglists, ill report back on my experiences :)
Cheers again

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