Hello.
I bought a 'Z-COM AG-623C 100mW 802.11a/b/g High Power Wireless Mini-PCI
Card' from DealeXtreme (
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/z-com-ag-623c-100mw-802-11a-b-g-high-power-wireless-mini-pci-card-33934)
not long ago. I installed it in my Soekris net5501 yesterday. Here is the
uname -a:
OpenBSD mithrandir.my.domain 4.9 GENERIC#671 i386
The card shows up as a AR5413 chip in dmesg and not a AR5414 chip as
announced on DX. Here are the entries from dmesg:
ath0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Atheros AR5413" rev 0x01: irq 15
ath0: AR5413 10.5 phy 6.1 rf 6.3, FCC2A*, address 00:60:b3:26:b9:01
I bought this card in the hope that it would work, because Soekris.EU does
sell the real AR5414 based card, and I believe that is some sort of quality
assurance. The problem is that the card I have does not work, e.g. when I
try to do a scan:
# ifconfig ath0 up
# ifconfig ath0 scan
ath0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:60:b3:26:b9:01
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM6 mode 11a)
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid ""
none
Previously, I used an ipw(4) based card from Intel that required an extra
package ipw-firmware. That card was so weak it only found two wlans. At
least, it did work, this does not. I bought this card since the ath(4) had
hostap support, and in the OpenBSD songs there is a lot of good words about
Atheros.The chip is very old, so I would believe that it was supported by
now.
I have read in WIkipedia [1] that the card is supported by Linux since
kernel version 2.6.25, plus it is supported in FreeBSD and NetBSD as well.
But, I want to use it in OpenBSD :)
Regards,
Rasmus
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References
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_wireless_drivers
