On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:20:25PM +0100, Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > i have just bought an Atheros mini-PCI card to put into my Soekris 4801 > box. The card is recognized as: > > ath0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 11 > ath0: AR5212 5.6 phy 4.1 rf5112 3.6, FCC1A, address 00:02:6f:39:61:75 > > during boot of OpenBSD 3.8. > > I am experiencing 2 problems with this card: > Firstly i am unable to establish a WLAN connection when the mode is > configured as 11g even though the man-page states that for AR5212 > devices the 802.11g modes are supported. The only way i can associate my > notebook to the Soekris is when ath0 is configured with mode 11b. When > setting the interface to mode 11g i see the following message on the > console: > ath0: device timeout > The man page states that "This should not happen." Is this a H/W issue > or a driver problem?
The man page needs to be updated, 11g modes on ath do not work yet.

