Hello, I'm having difficulty getting my Atheros 5212 based card to work in either of my dell laptops. The card only has its power LED on for about half a second when it is identified by the os (5.3BETA7), then it goes off. dhclient causes the link LED to blink in a very consistent manner but it never aquires any info from DHCP server.
'wicontrol -i ath0 -l' shows the correct wireless nets in the immediate area. 'ifconfig' shows correct info. My entire dmesg is appended to the bottom of this message. The card behaves the same on both my dell 5100 and my dell 1100. Thought maybe it was a bad card so I returned it and picked up another (same make and model)... but it behaves exactly the same. Its a Blitzz BWP 712 Super G (Atheros 5212)... wal-mart special. It behaves as described wether its inserted before I boot... or after it boots and I'm logged in. I have device ath device ath_hal device wlan I have a dhclient.conf with something to the effect of: media "ssid wLAN_SSID channel 1 weptxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x35CE7F608436C02D11583BDB7F3"; Other (maybe unimportant) things: ACPI is on... APM is off. #option SMP AGP is on DRM is on Tried disabling PC Card support and just leaving Cardbus support... no go. I suspect I have something misconfigured with respect to the pcmcia slot... but that's just a guess. Any/All help is appreciated. -- Regards, Eric dmesg follows: ================== Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #8: Tue Oct 19 08:29:06 CDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON5100 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (2657.82-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> real memory = 536645632 (511 MB) avail memory = 515461120 (491 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: <DELL CPi R > on motherboard Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0 acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0 acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0 acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 ACPI link \\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82845G host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 drm0: <ATI Radeon LW Mobility 7500 M7> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfcff0000-0xfcffffff,0xe8000000-0xefffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe0000000 128MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0 uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xbf40-0xbf5f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xbf20-0xbf3f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached) pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 5 at device 1.0 on pci2 miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0 bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0 bmtphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:56:b4:f1:50 bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem 0xfaffc000-0xfaffdfff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:69:39:7c ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps cbb0: <TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.0 on pci2 cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xfaff4000-0xfaff7fff,0xfaffb800-0xfaffbfff irq 11 at device 4.1 on pci2 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 39:4f:c0:00:03:57:18:81 fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0 fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 3a:4f:c0:57:18:81 fwe0: Ethernet address: 3a:4f:c0:57:18:81 fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 5 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec> pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached) atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x66,0x62,0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcf800-0xcffff,0xcf000-0xcf7ff,0xc0000-0xcefff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 ppc0: parallel port not found. sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2657821096 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0% ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf6010000-0xf601ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:01:36:08:5e:b6 ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps acd0: CDRW <QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-242/UD30> at ata0-master UDMA33 ad2: 38154MB <IC25N040ATMR04-0/MO2OAD0A> [77520/16/63] at ata1-master 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