Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:13:46 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Andrew Elmore <aelmore@interwoven.com> Subject: Re: Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade Message-ID: <17296.65370.236005.581452@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <4390CD9D.7010902@errno.com> References: <20051202164844.GB22464@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20051202175459.2ED095D09@ptavv.es.net> <20051202180306.GE20695@interwoven.com> <17296.45250.232884.375246@satchel.alerce.com> <4390CD9D.7010902@errno.com>
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Sam Leffler writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > > Andrew Elmore writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:54:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > And, it my ThinkPad would recognize an ath card, I'd try to do just > > > > that. IBM restricts you to the mini-PCI cards that it sells. (Grr!) > > > > > > FWIW, I replaced the iwi (Intel 2200) in my Thinkpad T42p with an IBM > > > branded Atheros card from Netgate, which works fine in my laptop. > > > > > > http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=219&osCsid=bbc37ce3707fc6a08ba3914eeb3f540f > > > > That looks like it's using the 5213 chipset. > > > > Are you running CURRENT, or STABLE, or??? > > > > Are you using it with the ndis drivers, or the native ath driver? > > > > The ath man page on STABLE doesn't mention working with the 5213 > > chipset, and google/my-memory also finds comments about the current > > HAL not supporting it. > > 5213 is really a feature set. The documentation talks about 5212 > support which is sufficient. The 6.x hal supports all the currently > available pci/cardbus parts EXCEPT for the latest > single-chip/PCI-Express parts. Those parts are supported in the hal I > have out at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam. No idea if/when I'll commit > the hal and related mods to cvs. > > > > > Is there something newer out there? > > "something", "newer"? Thanks for the authoritative answer! Sorry for the poorly specified question at the end, I was asking about a newer HAL or other kernel components than what I have in 6.0-STABLE, thinking that might explain my my doc said 5212 but people were running with a "5213 chipset". Your explanation above straightened me out. g.
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