Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Fri Dec 2 22:41:11 GMT 2005


George Hartzell wrote:
> Andrew Elmore writes:
>  > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:54:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>  > > And, it my ThinkPad would recognize an ath card, I'd try to do just
>  > > that. IBM restricts you to the mini-PCI cards that it sells. (Grr!)
>  > 
>  > FWIW, I replaced the iwi (Intel 2200) in my Thinkpad T42p with an IBM
>  > branded Atheros card from Netgate, which works fine in my laptop.
>  > 
>  > http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=219&osCsid=bbc37ce3707fc6a08ba3914eeb3f540f
> 
> That looks like it's using the 5213 chipset.
> 
> Are you running CURRENT, or STABLE, or???
> 
> Are you using it with the ndis drivers, or the native ath driver? 
> 
> The ath man page on STABLE doesn't mention working with the 5213
> chipset, and google/my-memory also finds comments about the current
> HAL not supporting it.

5213 is really a feature set.  The documentation talks about 5212 
support which is sufficient.  The 6.x hal supports all the currently 
available pci/cardbus parts EXCEPT for the latest 
single-chip/PCI-Express parts.  Those parts are supported in the hal I 
have out at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam.  No idea if/when I'll commit 
the hal and related mods to cvs.

> 
> Is there something newer out there?

"something", "newer"?

	Sam


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