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.

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