ath card problem

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:34:16AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:22 am, kalin mintchev wrote:
> > ok. for the last almost 3 weeks i've been trying to get the ath0 driver to
> > work properly with the dlink dwl-ag650 card i got for my t20 thinkpad with
> > 5.2.1.
> > it kinda works sometimes. that sometimes is driving me nuts. i understand
> > that there is the possibility that i'm really retarded and not being able
> > to make a simple piece of hardware work properly on this laptop. usually
> > that's not the case but for some reason this piece of hardware has been
> > very stubborn. i have to say that unfortunately it works with no problem
> > on a windows laptop with the windows driver.
> >
> > all that being said can somebody explain the outputs below.
> > ifconfig says it's associated but appears that it's not really. that
> > happens a lot. i tried 2 different access points. did reset the routers
> > about a dozen times. i'm back at the point where i'm about the rip this
> > card off the machine and trow it against the wall and then burn it until
> > it converts to a fluid...
> 
> The dwl-ag650 card has a chip in it that requires a more up to date hal to 
> operate well.  Otherwise you should not get errors reseting the part but 
> since the FreeBSD code is so ancient (probably a year behind the current 
> state of Atheros support) it's likely that one of a zillion changes have 
> dealt with the issue.
> 
> I have asked for help in updating the Atheros code but gotten few responses 
> (none of which have produced something committable).  I am in the process of 
> releasing yet another new hal and may have a few days to try and update the 
> FreeBSD code to include it.  Otherwise you can always use the ndis support to 
> run the windows driver.
> 


	I'll thow this out just for WIW.  I had similar problems 
	in getting my Xircom "Cardbus" too see my DSL link on my
	Thinkpad 600E.  After help from people on -mobile, this
	make things work::


In /boot/loader.conf


hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000"
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"


	gary



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