5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:09 pm, Timothy Smith wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >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
>
> 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?

With most modules, yes; but I've never gotten it to work with ath and 
ath_hal.

Andrew Gould