Atheros card with external antenna connector?

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 00:28, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Sam Leffler wrote:
>  > Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Sam Leffler wrote:
>  > >  > Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
>  > >  > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:42:00AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > >  > >> Thankyou Brix!  I was unaware of that whole resource, lots to 
explore. 
>  > >  > > 
>  > >  > > Welcome. Be ware that the resource deals with the Linux madwifi
>  > >  > > (atheros) driver, but the compatability section should give you 
some
>  > >  > > good hints on which cards are supported by the FreeBSD ath(4) 
driver.
>  > > 
>  > > Brix: glad to be free of my misconception that 'Orinoco Gold' used only
>  > > Hermes (wi), lacking hostap mode, like my old 11b Cabletron Roamabout. 
>  > > Its MC external connector is the same, so I've an eBay target already. 
>  > > 
>  > >  > The hal is the same and that's basically the only thing that matters 
wrt
>  > >  > chip support.
>  > > 
>  > > Sam: just to be sure .. it'd still need to have an AR5210, AR5211, or
>  > > AR5212 chipset to be used with ath(4), not the others madwifi supports?
>  > 
>  > The hal supports every Atheros cardbus/pci chip set currently in retail
>  > channels except for the AR5005VL parts.  This means you can pretty much
>  > buy anything in a cardbus/pci form factor.
> 
> Thanks, but I'm still a little confused, sorry.  I supppose ath(4) and
> ath_hal(4) are a bit out of date then, as they both specify just those 3
> chipsets - at least at 5.5-S Aug 1st and 6.1-R.

Try RELENG_6.

-- 
John Baldwin