5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Tue May 24 06:17:23 PDT 2005


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


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