Hello, I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in either of my dell laptops. �The card only has its power LED on for about half a second when it is identified by the os (5.3BETA7), then it goes off. �dhclient causes the link LED to blink in a very consistent manner but it never aquires any info from DHCP server.
'wicontrol -i ath0 -l' shows the correct wireless nets in the immediate area. �'ifconfig' shows correct info. �My entire dmesg is appended to the bottom of this message. The card behaves the same on both my dell 5100 and my dell 1100. � Thought maybe it was a bad card so I returned it and picked up another (same make and model)... but it behaves exactly the same. �Its a Blitzz BWP 712 Super G (Atheros 5212)... wal-mart special. �It behaves as described wether its inserted before I boot... or after it boots and I'm logged in. I have � device ath � device ath_hal � device wlan I have a dhclient.conf with something to the effect of: � media "ssid wLAN_SSID channel 1 weptxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x35CE7F608436C02D11583BDB7F3"; Other (maybe unimportant) things: ACPI is on... APM is off. #option SMP AGP is on DRM is on Tried disabling PC Card support and just leaving Cardbus support... no go. �I suspect I have something misconfigured with respect to the pcmcia slot... but that's just a guess. Any/All help is appreciated. -- Regards, Eric dmesg follows: ================== Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 �The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #8: Tue Oct 19 08:29:06 CDT 2004 � � [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON5100 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (2657.82-MHz 686-class CPU) � Origin = "GenuineIntel" �Id = 0xf29 �Stepping = 9 � Features=0xbfebf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> real memory �= 536645632 (511 MB) avail memory = 515461120 (491 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: <DELL CPi R �> on motherboard Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0 acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0 acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0 acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 ACPI link \\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82845G host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 drm0: <ATI Radeon LW Mobility 7500 M7> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfcff0000-0xfcffffff,0xe8000000-0xefffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe0000000 128MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0 uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xbf40-0xbf5f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xbf20-0xbf3f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached) pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 5 at device 1.0 on pci2 miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0 bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0 bmtphy0: �10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:56:b4:f1:50 bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 0xfaffc000-0xfaffdfff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:69:39:7c ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps cbb0: <TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.0 on pci2 cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xfaff4000-0xfaff7fff,0xfaffb800-0xfaffbfff irq 11 at device 4.1 on pci2 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 39:4f:c0:00:03:57:18:81 fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0 fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 3a:4f:c0:57:18:81 fwe0: Ethernet address: 3a:4f:c0:57:18:81 fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 5 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec> pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached) atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x66,0x62,0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcf800-0xcffff,0xcf000-0xcf7ff,0xc0000-0xcefff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 ppc0: parallel port not found. sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2657821096 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0% ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf6010000-0xf601ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:01:36:08:5e:b6 ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps acd0: CDRW <QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-242/UD30> at ata0-master UDMA33 ad2: 38154MB <IC25N040ATMR04-0/MO2OAD0A> [77520/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a ndis0: link up _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
