Netgear WG311T wlan card with Atheros chipset doesnt work

[Daniel Hyde]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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
> 
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