Atheros wireless can't find 11b modes on 5.3-BETA5

[Guy Middleton]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:05:33PM +0200, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:29:22AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 September 2004 09:07 am, Guy Middleton wrote:
> > > I just installed 5.3-BETA5 on an IBM T41 with an Atheros wireless card. 
> > > Boot message shows 11a and 11g rates, but no 11b:
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> I had the same bug with FreeBSD-CURRENT and an Atheros 5212 card.
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> > I don't see the hal rev but this is likely caused by an old bug in the hal 
> > that's long since fixed.  If you can try the existing patches you'd know for 
> > sure.  I'm working to update the patches to include a fix for WEP and some 
> > more updates but I'm stuck on a use-after-free bug and have no time at the 
> > moment to pursue it.
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> Your patch (http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/net80211+ath-20040818.tgz)
> fixed the problem for me (now I have 802.11a,b and g).

I just tried it; fixed here too (although WEP still is not working).

 -Guy