Re: Wireless hardware support
From: Sam Leffler (sam_at_errno.com)
Date: 04/27/05
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- In reply to: Will Saxon: "Wireless hardware support"
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:01:43 -0700 To: Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
Will Saxon wrote:
> I recently purchased a Netgear WG311 card based on the fact that the
> manpage for ath(4) says it is a supported card. As it turns out, at
> least version 2 (the version I had) of this card is not supported - it
> appears to be based on a Texas Instruments chipset that it not
> supported by anything other than Windows. I was able to use the card
> with the ndis wrapper, however it didn't work very well; console
> messages stated that the driver was buggy and in fact my system would
> panic randomly with the driver loaded.
>
> I returned the card this afternoon and swapped it out for another
> card, a D-Link DWL-G520. While this particular model number is not
> listed on the ath(4) manpage, it is listed as a supported ath(4)
> device on the 5.3-RELEASE hardware notes for i386. Also, it is listed
> at the atheros webpage linked from that same document. However, at
> least revision B3 of this card ALSO is not supported by the ath
> driver. I get the following error message when I try to load the
> driver:
>
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff irq 16 at device 6.0 on pci5
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
>
> I am able to use this card via the ndis wrapper, however I get
> numerous console messages like these (I renamed the device ath with
> ndiscvt):
>
> ath0: set filter failed: 45
> ath0: couldn't change DS config to 2417000kHz: 19
> NDIS: open file /compat/ndis/regAdd.txt failed: 2
>
> I fixed the latter by touching the file. I have no idea what it is
> supposed to do - there is no file by that name on the CD that came
> with the card and I am not sure what it is for.
>
> Interestingly, the DWL-G520 is supposed to be an 802.11b/g part only
> however the NDIS driver 'detects' 802.11a modes. Also the NDIS driver
> does not detect the 108Mbps 'Super' mode that the card advertises on
> the box.
>
> Thankfully, no panics yet with the D-Link card and the NDIS driver.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a PCI wireless card that is
> natively supported by FreeBSD?
5.3 has noticeably older ath support than -current. I've been unable to
update 5.x with all the 6.x code because it breaks API's that are frozen
for the life of 5.x. I'm considering backporting some of the
driver-specific 6.x support to 5.x so the same cards are supported but
that's a lot of work and won't happen until this summer.
Sam
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