Wireless woes (was: no subject)

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:29:01 +0200
> From: Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa at cbs.dk>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > Whoops! Sorry for the lack of a subject in the last post, folks. ;-)
> 
> >> Can anyone help with this, please?
> 
> After inserting the D-Link card you should probably run a quick 'ifconfig ath0' 
> to see if you have a new network-interface - the 'ath' driver is a generic part 
> of the generic kernel, so if you havn't done any changes to your local kernel 
> you should not need to 'kldload if_ath' (to load the appropriate kernel module).
> 
> I have the same pc-card, but I did a bit off kernel-modding, so I manually load 
> the 'ath' module ... I'm running an IBM R51 with the build in Intel2200 ('iwi'), 
> but the Atheros chipset of the DWL-650 is more flexible and better supported for 
> certain things.

I'm afraid that ath is NOT in Generic in 6.0 nor is it in 6.1-RC or
6-stable. It's not even in Current. (I'm not sure why this is the case.)

You will need to add it to you kernel config or 'kldload if_ath'. If you
always want it to load, add the line 'if_ath_load="YES"' to
/boot/loader.conf. 

Whether this will fix the problem, I can't say, as I don't know if the
DWL-650 you have uses an ath chip.

Also, pccard_enable is obsolete in V6. It was used with OLDCARD in
earlier version of FreeBSD, but the CardBus code does not use it. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634