Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:25:36 +0100 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: mschwartz@netcinergy.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Dimension 2400/Netgear WG311 more info Message-ID: <41766750.7030505@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <0MKz1m-1CK2uY0AoY-0001Jm@mrelay.perfora.net> References: <0MKz1m-1CK2uY0AoY-0001Jm@mrelay.perfora.net>
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Matt Schwartz wrote: > I am hoping somebody can help me out. I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I > installed a Netgear WG311 card in it. It has the Atheros chipset and will > work with the ath driver. However, I cannot get it to work. I am using > FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I have compiled a kernel adding the following lines: > > device ath > > device ath_hal and device wlan? [...] > A dmesg statement revealed this: > > pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 > > pci1: <simple comms> at device 4.0 (no driver attached) > > pci1: <network> at device 5.0 (no driver attached) > Pretty much what you'd expect if you didn't have the device compiled into your kernel. Or it's not the Atheros chipset... The WAG311 _does_ have this chipset. IIRC, the really, really, incredibly annoying thing about the WG311 is that there is a V2 model, the only type available right now, that has a Texas Instruments chipset for which there's no support in FreeBSD. Peter. -- the circle squared network systems and software http://www.circlesquared.com
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