Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:14:43 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: ali ali <maadree@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig does not show ath0 wireless network card Message-ID: <42BE9C33.2050307@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <ce3ef4ac050625190956649928@mail.gmail.com> References: <ce3ef4ac050625190956649928@mail.gmail.com>
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ali ali wrote: >I bought a new wireless network card listed under freebsd's supported >hardware which is 'DLINK Air Plus Xtreme G DWD-G520'. > >The DWD-G520 is an atheros wireless network card. So I recompiled my >freebsd kernel with the following options:- > >device ath >device ath_hal >device wlan > >But I still dont see ath0 interface when I execute the 'ifconfig' command. > >dmesg | grep ath shows the following:- >server# dmesg | grep ath >npx0: <math processor> on motherboard >ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdfff0000-0xdfffffff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0 >ath0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 >device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6 > > >Why this wireless network card is not working? And how to make it >work? I googled but didnt find any usefull answer, I hope to get >usefull answers this time > >Note that I am not yet a member of freebsd's mailing lists, so please >send answers to my email maadree@gmail.com. > > > >Best regards. >Ali >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Try the iwconfig command. I believe that FreeBSD uses that command as well for wireless cards as opposed to ifconfig. -Garrett
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