Edwin Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm wanting to put a 802.11b/g card in my ultra5. I'm having a lot > of trouble finding a supported card here in Australia so I'm looking > at chipsets that are supported on i386 and not sparc64. > > Is it just a lack of testing of ath(4) on sparc64 that has prevented > it from being in GENERIC or are there some platform specific issues > that would prevent it from running? > > I'm happy to grab a card (probably an ath(4) based DWL-G520) and see > if I can't make it work but wanted to check first and see what the > situation is.
There were some efforts at c2k5 getting ath(4) on macppc. Didn't happen much since then to get alignment and whatnot working on other architectures. So, yes, just go ahead and make it work.
