docs/157778: Broken doc link regarding Atheros products

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>Number:         157778
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Broken doc link regarding Atheros products
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 11 22:50:08 UTC 2011
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>Originator:     Ted Mittelstaedt
>Release:        8.2-RELEASE
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>Environment:
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>Description:
On URL:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/hardware.html#WLAN

and probably in many other areas of the FreeBSD documentation,
the URL:

http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp

is referenced.  This URL is broken due to the May 2011 purchase
of Atheros by Qualcomm.

The new URL that appears to be similar is:

http://www.qca.qualcomm.com/technology/technology.php?nav1=47

Note that the old URL also appears to be in the man page for ath(4)

Unfortunately the new URL does not seem to be a database lookup
of which atheros chips are in aftermarket cards, so the supported
WiFi list is now very lacking, as an end user cannot pull the model
number of a PCMCIA wireless card and look it up in their database
to see if it contains an Atheros chip.

I did a bit of research and for what it's worth the D-Link
DWA-552 and DWA-556 contain the Atheros 5416 and 5418 chips,
respectively.  I don't know if they work with this driver.
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