5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

[Timothy Smith]

Andrew L. Gould wrote:

>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote:
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>>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
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>>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote:
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>>>>is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card?
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>>>What do you mean by "extra"?  What have you done so far?
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>>>Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and
>>>ath_hal?
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>>>Andrew Gould
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>>i tried compiling it with ath and ath_hal, but it totally freaks out
>>on make. error on apci (i thought that stuff was disabled in
>>generic?)
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>What version of FreeBSD are you using?  Note that the atheros chipset is 
>only supported by FreeBSD 5*.
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>If apci is incompatible with your hardware, you may have to disable it 
>and revert back to apm (or neither).
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>Andrew Gould
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it's 5.3 release,
apci and apm are disabled in generic (which i copied).
i added the lines device ath and device ath_hal

i get the error

 "internal compiler error: segmentation fault"
stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ctau

sorry i can't provide any kind of dump. wifi is this machines only 
option for networking :/ should i just give up or is there a glimmer of 
hope i might get this to work?