OpenBSD Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I went and bought a netgear WG311 PCI 54g (Wg311GE) card the other > day to put in my firewall. I intended to use this is as an access > point for a WLAN. This card is listed in the support hardware section > on the openbsd website under i386 but not amd64.
Well, from the dmesg > "Texas Instruments ACX111" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 not > configured it looks like netgear changed chipsets without telling anybody about it. I had a similar experience with a of D-Link card. D-Link have several ath based cards, among them DWL-G520. On the other hand the DWL-G520+ is based on TI ACX111, which for some reason TI does not want to release documentation for. As a consequence, support for ACX111 cards on free operating systems is almost non-existent. On Linux and FreeBSD you might be able to use an ndis loader workaround (loading the Windows binary via a wrapper), but for very understandable reasons OpenBSD does not support this. Take a look at http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts (as mentioned in the ath man page) and see if you can have the dealer agree to have the card exchanged for a supported one. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"
