ath(4) major update

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On 2/4/07, Ja'far Railton <ibn.richard at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:07:50PM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> On 2/3/07, Ja'far Railton <ibn.richard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:55:24PM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> >CIS reading done
> >ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88010000-0x8801ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on
> >cardbus0
> >ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3
> >device_probe_and_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
>
> Does the old HAL work for you?  If not, do any wired cardbus NICs work
> on you laptop?
No, it has never worked for me on DFly. It attaches OK on NetBSD and shows
up with "ifconfig -a".
I don't have another card to try but I guess I should try getting one.

> BTW, please give me the exact product name of the problematic ath(4)
> cardbus NIC, thanks.
This is a D-Link AirPlus XtremeG 2.4 GHz High Speed Wireless Cardbus
Adapter - DWL-G650. I think it is Rev. B, but as I say, it does attach on
NetBSD.
Can you try following patch:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/cbb_020407.diff
Best Regards,
sephe
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