Re: [Madwifi-users] Netgate EMP-8602 wireless card??

[Jim T. <ji...@ne...>]

Michael Renzmann wrote:

>Hi.
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>On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 08:54 -0500, Herbert Rubens wrote:
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>>Has anyone managed to get the Netgate EMP-8602 wireless card working
>>with Madwifi? On the Netgate website it says "Linux Support via Madwifi"
>>but I haven't managed to get it working.
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>Please describe the messages / symptoms you see. 
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>>The card is based on the Atheros 5006 chipset, which might not be
>>supported with the current HAL.
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>Compex donated three 5006-based cards to the project, so I'll soon check
>if they are supported properly or not. 
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>>If the card is not currently supported do we have any info from the HAL
>>developers on when the chipset will be supported?
>>

The card works (really well) on freebsd 6.0 with the new HAL (and 
requisite changes.)   I have yet to test it on linux, but that will 
happen later this week and over the weekend.

On some platforms, (are you running on a WRAP?) there is a BIOS issue 
during cold boot (only), where the BIOS doesn't properly enumerate the 
cards, but during a warm boot (reboot without a power cycle) the cards 
*are* enumerated.

Its *not* a HAL (or driver) issue.   I spoke to Sam at some length about 
it to be sure I wasn't confusing myself.

I'm working on getting it fixed.


Jim