DWL-G520 rev. b3 (AR5213 chipset)

[Sam Leffler]

Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is this card (DWL-G520 rev. b3  with the AR5213 chipset ) supported in
> 6.0 yet? Because it doesn't appear to be:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> pciconf -lv:
> ath0 at pci0:6:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x3a131186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     device   = 'AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
>     class    = network
>     subclass = ethernet
> 
> dmesg:
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xdffe0000-0xdffeffff irq 17 at device 6.0 on pci0
> ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> If not, will it be sometime soon?
> 
> Also, the reason I bought this card was because ath(4) explicitly says
> that the DWL-G520 rev. b works in 5.4 and 6.0, which is a lie in the
> case of rev. b3, so someone should update this manpage. Of course,
> this was probably before D-LInk decided to upgrade this card's chipset
> to the AR5213 (the manpage thinks this card has the AR5212 chipset).

There's a hal out for test at www.freebsd.org/~sam; it should handle the 
part.  See previous postings from me to current at .

	Sam