DWL-G520 rev. b3 (AR5213 chipset)

[Francois Kritzinger]

No worries, forgot to have a look at those posts of yours you mentioned.

Thanks :)

On 18/01/06, Francois Kritzinger <francoisk777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>