support for Proxim Silver wifi card

[Sam Leffler]

Petr Holub wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> does anybody have a clue why Athreos-based Proxim Orinoco 11a/b/g
> cards are not supported in 7.0?
>
> pciconf -lv:
>
> ath0 at pci0:22:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0xaa1014b7 chip=0x0013168c
> rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     device     = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> dmesg:
>
> cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0x0
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xbfeb0000-0xbfebffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> cardbus0
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
>
> HAL status 13 says unsupported HW. Has anybody worked on this?
> Is it matter of just some missing ID or is there a more fundamental
> problem?
>   

It should work (devid 0x13 is supported by the hal in cvs).  You can try 
the test hal at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam.  If that works please let 
me know what it identifies the mac+phy as.

    Sam