Hi all.. Novice user having woes getting Atheros card up in FreeBSD 6.0

[Sam Leffler]

Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Thursday 26 January 2006 07:53 pm, resonant evil wrote:
>> So I rebooted, and the new kernel booted no problem.  However when
>> the system was starting up and all of the text was flashing by I
>> still saw no sign of an ath0 device.. So I logged in and tried
>> doing a 'kldload if_ath' and it said "File already exists" so I
>> thought that meant it was loaded.. Just for fun I tried a 'ifconfig
>> ath0 up' but that just spit out "ifconfig: interface ath0 does not
>> exist" and now I'm really starting to get nervous :(
> 
> This card seems to have newer chipset and I heard the following patch 
> supports newer chipsets:
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?439E1030.1080304
> 
> However, I don't think this patch applies to 6.X.

Correct.  The hal in cvs doesn't support the chip; only the one out for 
test.  I've merged all the net80211-related changes but the ath patch is 
now out of date.  I'll regenerate it and post a note when it's ready.

	Sam