Atheros card support in 5.2.1

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Thu Jul 29 20:50:59 PDT 2004


On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:16PM -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> I'm trying to get a card that's supported by madwifi drivers in Linux
> (atheros) to work in FreeBSD and eventually FreeSBIE.  I've seen things
> posted in other threads that say that atheros cards are supported (at
> least some are) using the ath driver but in looking through my kernel
> configuration options I'm not seeing ath anywhere.  I see an, awi, wi,
> and wl but no ath.
> 
> Does anyone have any information about how to enable atheros support in
> 5.2.1??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben

I think you need to add the following to your kernel configuration file:

	device	ath
	device	ath_hal

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould



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