Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:10:52 +1100 From: Daniel Hyde <daniel.hyde@gmail.com> To: Lukas Razik <lukas@razik.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgear WG311T wlan card with Atheros chipset doesnt work Message-ID: <c7f6f0f205030915103458b99e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <265596555@web.de> References: <265596555@web.de>
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I've also got one of these cards at home and have brought it up successfully before using the ath driver on my 5.3-release system (although my last few attempts failed, but possibly the AP/router was playing up --- I've noticed it does this sometimes). I don't boot into bsd at home much though, since I mostly use that system for gaming, so it's been a while since I've even tried to bring this card up, and I don't actually remember what I needed to do (but I was reading from the handbook, so theoretically it's all in there). But I *have* succeeded with the ath driver on a couple of occasions. I haven't managed to bring it up using DHCP though, nor could I bring up sk0 for my ethernet card using DHCP (although both lan and wireless work with DHCP in Windows). On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:00:50 +0100, Lukas Razik <lukas@razik.de> wrote: > > > Hi!!! > > > > > > I've bought a Netgear WG311T wlan card with an Atheros chipset (not that one with Texas Instruments chipset) _especially_ for my VIA EPIA VE5000 baord which works very good with 5.3-RELEASE after having many problems with prism54 cards and FreeBSD on other systems in the past... > > > > > > But after loading the if_ath kernel module nothing happens... > > > There's no new device and 'pciconf -lv' only lists that: > > > ... > > > none1@pci0:20:0: class=0x820000 card=0xcd001385 chip=0x8013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > > > ... > > > > > > I thought that it _must_ work because under Windows SiSoft Sandra listed that it has an Atheros AR5212 chip... > > > Now I've looked at the card and it's an AR5213A. > > > > > > Is it possible to get it work under FreeBSD? Maybe CURRENT??? > > > > With possiable exception of the pre-N products, all the Atheros chipsets > > should work under CURRENT. > > > > -- Brooks > > OK. Thanks for this answere!!! > Because I don't want to change immediately to CURRENT I did a cvsup to RELENG_5_3 and then the ath driver recognized the Netgear WG311T but I've got an error (from ath_hal). (If someone wants to know the output, please ask.) > > ... > > Another thing I wanted to try is an Allnet 0281 wlan card with this driver: > http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/ > which works good on another CURRENT system and a prism54 card (I thought the Allnet 0281 has a prism chipset like the Allnet 0271)... > > But then the ath driver recognized the Allnet 0281 (which is not listed in the ath manpage) because it also has an Atheros AR5213 chip: > ath0@pci0:20:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3ab01186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > device = 'AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > and now it works fine!!! :-))) > Maybe these informations are useful for people who want to buy a new one... > > Lukas > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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