DWL-G520 rev. b3 (AR5213 chipset)

[Francois Kritzinger]

Cool, but will this patch work against 6.0-RELEASE?

On 17/01/06, Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
> 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
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