ath(4) for D-Link G520M on 5.5-R?

[Dan Pelleg]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:54:33AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Fri, June 2, 2006 11:46 am, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> > I just got the D-Link DWL-G520M PCI wireless card. I'm not interested
> > in super-G or any other post-802.11b feature in particular; the
> > reason I got it was because the marketing materials hinted that (at
> > least some revision of it) had the Atheros chipset.
> >
> > It isn't recognized at all by ath(4) on 5.5. Here is the pciconf -lv
> > section:
> 
> Check the output of dmesg when you kldload the ath modules.  That will
> tell you the version of the chips on the NIC.
> 

No output whatsoever. Tried both with ath and ath_hal compiled in, and also
as modules. wlan was always compiled in.

> You should also consider upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, as a lot of
> improvements were made to the wireless stack, over an above the
> improvements in 5.4/5.5.
> 
> > none0 at pci0:14:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x3a681186
> > chip=0x0020168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor   = 'Atheros Communications
> > Inc.' class    = network subclass = ethernet
> 
> 
> ----
> Freddie Cash
> fcash at ocis.net
> 
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