Wireless hardware support

[Daniel Hyde]

I have had some degree of success with the Netgear WG311T (note the T
on the end -- this is a very different beast from the humble WG311). 
I've brought it up a couple of times at a ridiculously slow speed
(1Mb/s), then changed some setting to try to get a faster connection,
forgot what I changed, and haven't been able to bring it up since.

But I *have* had it up using the ath driver.  Once or twice.  Slowly.

I mostly use that machine for gaming, so rarely boot it to freebsd, so
haven't had much motivation to try again since.

FWIW, at the time it was running 5.3-RELEASE.

On 4/27/05, Will Saxon <WillS at housing.ufl.edu> wrote:
> I recently purchased a Netgear WG311 card based on the fact that the
> manpage for ath(4) says it is a supported card. As it turns out, at
> least version 2 (the version I had) of this card is not supported - it
> appears to be based on a Texas Instruments chipset that it not
> supported by anything other than Windows. I was able to use the card
> with the ndis wrapper, however it didn't work very well; console
> messages stated that the driver was buggy and in fact my system would
> panic randomly with the driver loaded.
> 
> I returned the card this afternoon and swapped it out for another
> card, a D-Link DWL-G520. While this particular model number is not
> listed on the ath(4) manpage, it is listed as a supported ath(4)
> device on the 5.3-RELEASE hardware notes for i386. Also, it is listed
> at the atheros webpage linked from that same document. However, at
> least revision B3 of this card ALSO is not supported by the ath
> driver. I get the following error message when I try to load the
> driver:
> 
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff irq 16 at device 6.0 on pci5
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> 
> I am able to use this card via the ndis wrapper, however I get
> numerous console messages like these (I renamed the device ath with
> ndiscvt):
> 
> ath0: set filter failed: 45
> ath0: couldn't change DS config to 2417000kHz: 19
> NDIS: open file /compat/ndis/regAdd.txt failed: 2
> 
> I fixed the latter by touching the file. I have no idea what it is
> supposed to do - there is no file by that name on the CD that came
> with the card and I am not sure what it is for.
> 
> Interestingly, the DWL-G520 is supposed to be an 802.11b/g part only
> however the NDIS driver 'detects' 802.11a modes. Also the NDIS driver
> does not detect the 108Mbps 'Super' mode that the card advertises on
> the box.
> 
> Thankfully, no panics yet with the D-Link card and the NDIS driver.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a PCI wireless card that is
> natively supported by FreeBSD?
> 
> -Will
> 
> --
> Will Saxon
> Systems Programmer, Network Services
> University of Florida Department of Housing
> Phone: (352) 392-2171 x10148
> Email: wills at housing.ufl.edu
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