I've an Atheros AR5424, which OpenBSD seems to detect correctly, but does not really work. The ath driver is used, and the man pages don't list this model as being supported, but I though I might ask if there was some fix/etc.
# ifconfig ath0 chan ath0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:1f:e2:a2:c5:4f priority: 4 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect status: no network ieee80211: nwid "" chan freq properties # ifconfig ath0 scan ath0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:1f:e2:a2:c5:4f priority: 4 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect status: no network ieee80211: nwid "" <blue>ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294934528 # In reference to the above blue error, the man pages say it should not happen. Again, the card is not listed as supported either. I don't mind providing more feedback/testing patches/etc. Cheers, and thanks. dmesg: OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #589: Mon Oct 18 16:29:17 MDT 2010 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 2134712320 (2035MB) avail mem = 2064023552 (1968MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe2c30 (25 entries) bios0: vendor Hewlett-Packard version "F.33" date 04/29/2008 bios0: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Presario C700 Notebook PC acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC HPET MCFG ASF! SLIC BOOT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices SLPB(S4) P32_(S4) EXP1(S4) EXP2(S4) EXP3(S4) EXP4(S4) EXP5(S4) EXP6(S4) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz, 1729.28 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,NXE,LONG cpu0: 1MB 64b/line 4-way L2 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 132MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz, 1729.00 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,NXE,LONG cpu1: 1MB 64b/line 4-way L2 cache ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 4 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 2 (P32_) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 1 (EXP1) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP2) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP3) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP4) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP5) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP6) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2, C1, PSS acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3, C2, C1, PSS acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 100 degC acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB acpibtn1 at acpi0: LID0 acpibtn2 at acpi0: SLPB acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 model "Primary" type Lion oem "Hewlett-Packard" acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpivideo0 at acpi0: OVGA cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1729 MHz: speeds: 1733, 1333, 1067, 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel GM965 Host" rev 0x03 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel GM965 Video" rev 0x03 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0x80000000, size 0x10000000 inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11) drm0 at inteldrm0 "Intel GM965 Video" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801H HD Audio" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 22 (irq 11) azalia0: codecs: Conexant CX20561 audio0 at azalia0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801H PCIE" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 18 (irq 11) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ath0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11) ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR02W, address 00:1f:e2:a2:c5:4f uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 21 (irq 11) uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 20 (irq 11) uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 19 (irq 11) ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801H USB" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 23 (irq 11) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xf3 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 rl0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11), address 00:1e:ec:78:5b:13 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801HBM LPC" rev 0x03 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801HBM IDE" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <Optiarc, DVD RW AD-7561A, GH09> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801HBM AHCI" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 17 (irq 10), AHCI 1.1 scsibus1 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, WDC WD1200BEVS-6, 01.0> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 114473MB, 512 bytes/sec, 234441648 sec total ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801H SMBus" rev 0x03: apic 4 int 19 (irq 11) iic0 at ichiic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5 SO-DIMM spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x52: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-4200CL5 SO-DIMM usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support umass0 at uhub0 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic USB2.0-CRW" rev 2.00/51.95 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <Generic-, Multi-Card, 1.00> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd1: drive offline uvideo0 at uhub0 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 "Syntek USB2.0 UVC PC Camera" rev 2.00/11.08 addr 3 video0 at uvideo0 uhidev0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Logitech USB Receiver" rev 2.00/2.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 16 buttons, Z dir wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0 uhidev1 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 "Logitech USB Receiver" rev 2.00/2.00 addr 2 uhidev1: iclass 3/0, 17 report ids uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 3: input=4, output=0, feature=0 uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 16: input=6, output=6, feature=0 uhid2 at uhidev1 reportid 17: input=19, output=19, feature=0 vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted softraid0: sd3 was not shutdown properly softraid0: sd3 was not shutdown properly scsibus4 at softraid0: 1 targets sd2 at scsibus4 targ 0 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 004> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd2: 111395MB, 512 bytes/sec, 228138538 sec total softraid0: volume sd2 is roaming, it used to be sd3, updating metadata ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294967295 ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294934528 umass1 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Kingston DataTraveler 2.0" rev 2.00/1.10 addr 4 umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus5 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd3 at scsibus5 targ 1 lun 0: <Kingston, DataTraveler 2.0, PMAP> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd3: 3824MB, 512 bytes/sec, 7831552 sec total ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294934528 umass2 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Sony "PSP" Type A" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 5 umass2: using ATAPI over Bulk-Only scsibus6 at umass2: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd4 at scsibus6 targ 1 lun 0: <SONY, "PSP" MS, 1.00> ATAPI 0/direct removable sd4: 7632MB, 512 bytes/sec, 15630336 sec total -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera