Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:54:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@ocis.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath(4) for D-Link G520M on 5.5-R? Message-ID: <38961.192.168.0.10.1149274473.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060602184650.GA86617@atoz.libagent.org> References: <20060602184650.GA86617@atoz.libagent.org>
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On Fri, June 2, 2006 11:46 am, Dan Pelleg wrote: > I just got the D-Link DWL-G520M PCI wireless card. I'm not interested > in super-G or any other post-802.11b feature in particular; the > reason I got it was because the marketing materials hinted that (at > least some revision of it) had the Atheros chipset. > > It isn't recognized at all by ath(4) on 5.5. Here is the pciconf -lv > section: Check the output of dmesg when you kldload the ath modules. That will tell you the version of the chips on the NIC. You should also consider upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, as a lot of improvements were made to the wireless stack, over an above the improvements in 5.4/5.5. > none0@pci0:14:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a681186 > chip=0x0020168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications > Inc.' class = network subclass = ethernet ---- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net
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