Question about atheros wireless card

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Sep 26 07:06:09 PDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:14:34PM +0200, carlopmart at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  Is DWL-G520 (atheros chipset) wireless card only supported under i386 
> platform?? I am trying to compile new kernel with this nic and returns 
> me  this error:
> 
> ah_osdep.o(.text+0x210): In function `ath_hal_modevent':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_version'
> ah_osdep.o(.data+0xb8): undefined reference to `ath_hal_version'
> if_ath.o(.text+0xbc): In function `ath_attach':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_attach'
> if_ath.o(.text+0xc0): In function `ath_attach':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_attach'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x4ae4): In function `ath_tx_start':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x4ae8): In function `ath_tx_start':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x4b98): In function `ath_tx_start':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x4b9c): In function `ath_tx_start':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x4bc8): In function `ath_tx_start':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x4bcc): more undefined references to 
> `ath_hal_computetxtime' follow
> if_ath.o(.text+0x66d0): In function `ath_getchannels':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_init_channels'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x66d4): In function `ath_getchannels':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_init_channels'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x6748): In function `ath_getchannels':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_mhz2ieee'
> if_ath.o(.text+0x674c): In function `ath_getchannels':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_mhz2ieee'
> if_ath_pci.o(.text+0x11c): In function `ath_pci_probe':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_probe'
> if_ath_pci.o(.text+0x120): In function `ath_pci_probe':
> : undefined reference to `ath_hal_probe'
> 
>  And I found the same problem under amd64: 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-March/004209.html.
> 
>  Is this driver supported for Alpha platform??? or do I need to install 
> FreeBSD 6 BETA ???

This device requires an architecture dependent HAL which is currently
only supported for i386 and amd64.

-- Brooks

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