D-Link DWL-520 rev. B3

Jan Mikael Melen Jan.Melen at piuha.net
Fri May 20 04:48:10 PDT 2005


I have a problem with DWL-520 rev B3 and FreeBSD-5.3-p15. When the driver is 
loaded I get the follwing output:

ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xd5800000-0xd580ffff irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0
ath0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6

And it seems that the error 13 means that hardware is not supported. Has 
anyone made a patch for the driver?

pciconf -l -v gives:
ath0 at pci0:9:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x3a131186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
    device   = 'AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

It seems that the PCCARD DWL-650 is using at least the same chipset and it 
works fine on my laptop? Any Ideas how to fix this?

   Regards,
      Jan


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