atheros supported wireless card not seen under 5.4 release - help please

[D. Goss]

On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:40 PM, D. Goss wrote:

> I've been happy with my limited use of FreeBSD and am slowly  
> propagating it to other machines I can find... :)
>
> I've just installed 5.4 release (generic) onto an older Dell  
> Inspiron 7500 laptop.  I'm trying to get a PCMCIA wireless network  
> card working and having problems.
>
> The card is Atheros based and hence listed as supported under the  
> harware list (NEC PA-WL/54AG) via ath(4).  If I ifconfig the card  
> is not shown, I only see the loopback.
>
> dmesg shows   cardbus0: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no  
> driver attached)
>
> Finally, the card has been shown to work in another laptop under  
> another OS so I know the hardware is good.
>

Just went off to check GENERIC - I'm (obviously) new to this but it  
seems that ath is not in GENERIC, correct?  I'll try rebuilding with  
it...

Sorry if it was that -
d.