supported 802.11a pcmcia cards

[Sam Leffler]

Aidan Whyte wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm back to bug you a bit more unfortunately :)
> 
> I've been looking at 802.11a pc-cards for freebsd, but I'm rather confused as to what exactly is 
> supported. Under the ath driver, there's a list ( 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE&format=html ) 
> of supported cards, with a note at the end saying an up to date list can be found here ( 
> http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts ). The confusion arises because far more cards 
> appear in the atheros list - in fact, it appears like it may be the entire atheros range of wireless 
> products.
> 
> So, is the list in the ath man page exhaustive for currently supported ath cards, or should I work 
> off the atheros.com link when checking to see if cards are supported?

Any Atheros-based PCI/Cardbus card currently in the retail channels will 
work with the driver in current (though I just saw an add for a card 
with the MIMO/TGh part that I haven't tested).  The support in 
5.3-RELEASE is >1 year old and does not handle some of the more recent 
parts.  I have no plan to backport code to 5.x because the changes are 
massive and would break API's that are frozen for the life of the 5.x 
releases.

	Sam