5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

[Timothy Smith]

Andrew L. Gould wrote:

>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote:
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>>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
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>>>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
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>>i get the error
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>> "internal compiler error: segmentation fault"
>>stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ctau
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>>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?
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>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.
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>(Also check the version of the PCI card.  Is it version B?)
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>Best of luck,
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>Andrew Gould
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yeah thats the bugger of a thing, it has no network access to update via 
cvsup, i have to d/l latest i think and try again.
can i load kernel modules any other way besides compiling them in?