From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 14:51:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C8B16A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:51:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A2B43D1D for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:51:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=[192.168.63.10]) by smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1Daal5-0007AH-MS; Tue, 24 May 2005 10:51:51 -0400 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Timothy Smith Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:52:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <4292DCBD.5020904@open-networks.net> <200505240817.47562.algould@datawok.com> <42933168.5060504@open-networks.net> In-Reply-To: <42933168.5060504@open-networks.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505240952.17605.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc055d0423696fb16566037af0e9354c4b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:51:54 -0000 On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>>>is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? > >>> > >>>What do you mean by "extra"? What have you done so far? > >>> > >>>Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and > >>>ath_hal? > >>> > >>>Andrew Gould > >>>_______________________________________________ > >> > >>i tried compiling it with ath and ath_hal, but it totally freaks > >> out on make. error on apci (i thought that stuff was disabled in > >> generic?) > > > >What version of FreeBSD are you using? Note that the atheros > > chipset is only supported by FreeBSD 5*. > > > >If apci is incompatible with your hardware, you may have to disable > > it and revert back to apm (or neither). > > > >Andrew Gould > > it's 5.3 release, > apci and apm are disabled in generic (which i copied). > i added the lines device ath and device ath_hal > > i get the error > > "internal compiler error: segmentation fault" > stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ctau > > sorry i can't provide any kind of dump. wifi is this machines only > option for networking :/ should i just give up or is there a glimmer > of hope i might get this to work? Since I had a version B of the same wireless PCI card working in 5.3, I wouldn't give up. I would, however, update the system using cvsup in case something is missing/corrupted in the source code. (Also check the version of the PCI card. Is it version B?) Best of luck, Andrew Gould