Re: Question about atheros wireless card

From: Brooks Davis (brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 09/26/05

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To: "carlopmart@gmail.com" <carlopmart@gmail.com>

    On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:14:34PM +0200, carlopmart@gmail.com wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > Is DWL-G520 (atheros chipset) wireless card only supported under i386
    > platform?? I am trying to compile new kernel with this nic and returns
    > me this error:
    >
    > ah_osdep.o(.text+0x210): In function `ath_hal_modevent':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_version'
    > ah_osdep.o(.data+0xb8): undefined reference to `ath_hal_version'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0xbc): In function `ath_attach':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_attach'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0xc0): In function `ath_attach':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_attach'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x4ae4): In function `ath_tx_start':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x4ae8): In function `ath_tx_start':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x4b98): In function `ath_tx_start':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x4b9c): In function `ath_tx_start':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x4bc8): In function `ath_tx_start':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_computetxtime'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x4bcc): more undefined references to
    > `ath_hal_computetxtime' follow
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x66d0): In function `ath_getchannels':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_init_channels'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x66d4): In function `ath_getchannels':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_init_channels'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x6748): In function `ath_getchannels':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_mhz2ieee'
    > if_ath.o(.text+0x674c): In function `ath_getchannels':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_mhz2ieee'
    > if_ath_pci.o(.text+0x11c): In function `ath_pci_probe':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_probe'
    > if_ath_pci.o(.text+0x120): In function `ath_pci_probe':
    > : undefined reference to `ath_hal_probe'
    >
    > And I found the same problem under amd64:
    > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-March/004209.html.
    >
    > Is this driver supported for Alpha platform??? or do I need to install
    > FreeBSD 6 BETA ???

    This device requires an architecture dependent HAL which is currently
    only supported for i386 and amd64.

    -- Brooks 

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