How to connect to Wireless LAN using Athereos AR5007EG ?

[Sam Leffler]

Ashish Shukla ???? ????? wrote:
> [posted earlier but got no replies, so reposting]
>
> Hi list,
>
> I've tried HAL v. 0.10.5.6 available at Sam Leffler's user directory[1]
> in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 (amd64) and Gentoo GNU/Linux (hardened/AMD64).
>
> In Gentoo GNU/Linux, I'm able to connect to a WPA2 secured network with
> no problems, whereas in FreeBSD, I'm only able to scan the Wireless
> network successfully, not able to ping any box. I've tried FreeBSD with
> an unencrypted network as well as encrypted network using
> wpa_supplicant, but except scanning nothing worked. I can associate with
> the access point, but thats it.
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 kernel, just replaced
> /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath with the directory in tarball, and rebuilt
> all modules.
>
> abbe [ath_hal-20080528] monte-cristo% pciconf -l |grep ath0
> ath0 at pci0:1:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x137b103c chip=0x001c168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> References:
> [1] - http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20080528.tgz
>
> Tons of thanks to Sam for posting the HAL.
>   
HEAD works fine with 0.10.5.6 so there's something in the 7.x driver 
that needs to be updated. I hope to look at it this weekend.

Sam