5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Tue May 24 07:51:54 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote:
> >>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote:
> >>>>is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card?
> >>>
> >>>What do you mean by "extra"?  What have you done so far?
> >>>
> >>>Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and
> >>>ath_hal?
> >>>
> >>>Andrew Gould
> >>>_______________________________________________
> >>
> >>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?)
> >
> >What version of FreeBSD are you using?  Note that the atheros
> > chipset is only supported by FreeBSD 5*.
> >
> >If apci is incompatible with your hardware, you may have to disable
> > it and revert back to apm (or neither).
> >
> >Andrew Gould
>
> 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?

Since I had a version B of the same wireless PCI card working in 5.3, I 
wouldn't give up.  I would, however, update the system using cvsup in 
case something is missing/corrupted in the source code.

(Also check the version of the PCI card.  Is it version B?)

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould


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