Wireless woes

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 02:18:10 +0100
> From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin at gmail.com>
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just had a thought on this subject. Could the problem I'm having be due to
> not having the firmware/hal? I never thought to install anything since it
> works in SuSE 10.0 out of the box. Is there a firmware/hal package/port in
> ports?

Jeff,

One thing I am still unclear on: does ANY PCcard work on the system? It
looks like CIS is not being read on your card, but if this is failing,
it should be broken for all cards.

Is this a PCcard issue with FreeBSD on your system or an issue with
only the DWL-G650 card?

Because Atheros allows FreeBSD to include the firmware in FreeBSD, is
does not need to be downloaded/installed.

When HAL loads, ath_hal should print the version number and a list of
supported Atheros chips to the console and logs. If the system detects
an Atheros device, it should list the information from the card tagged
as being from ath0:.

Do you see any of this?
-- 
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