On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: > >>>>is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? > >>> > >>>What do you mean by "extra"? What have you done so far? > >>> > >>>Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and > >>>ath_hal? > >>> > >>>Andrew Gould > >>>_______________________________________________ > >> > >>i tried compiling it with ath and ath_hal, but it totally freaks > >> out on make. error on apci (i thought that stuff was disabled in > >> generic?) > > > >What version of FreeBSD are you using? Note that the atheros > > chipset is only supported by FreeBSD 5*. > > > >If apci is incompatible with your hardware, you may have to disable > > it and revert back to apm (or neither). > > > >Andrew Gould > > it's 5.3 release, > apci and apm are disabled in generic (which i copied). > i added the lines device ath and device ath_hal > > i get the error > > "internal compiler error: segmentation fault" > stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ctau > > sorry i can't provide any kind of dump. wifi is this machines only > option for networking :/ should i just give up or is there a glimmer > of hope i might get this to work?
Since I had a version B of the same wireless PCI card working in 5.3, I wouldn't give up. I would, however, update the system using cvsup in case something is missing/corrupted in the source code. (Also check the version of the PCI card. Is it version B?) Best of luck, Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
