Can the atheros driver be used in FreeBSD 4.9?

[Jesse Guardiani]

Alejandro Valenzuela wrote:

> Hi everyone and thanks for reading this
> I recently bought an EnGenius a/b/g miniPCI card, which uses the Atheros
> chipset.
> 
> I was wondering if it was possible to use the atheros driver in FreeBSD
> 4.9, because my laptop doesn't seem to like the 5.2 Release ( gets stuck
> before starting sysinstall when I try installing it, as it has
> unfortunately done since 5.X ).
> 
> If so, where can I download it?
> 
> If it isn't possible to use the atheros driver, which loader.conf
> "switches" would you recommend trying?
> I suspect the computer freezes when polling the sound card (it does so
> in FreeBSD 4.9), which is in pci1, I believe...

Don't know about ath in 4.x, but this is the list of options I usually
have to try in 5.x:

unset acpi_load
set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
set hint.apic.0.disabled=1

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