[CUWiN-Dev] CUWireless Atheros Support

[David Young]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:17:35PM -0400, Mark Cather wrote:
> I am trying to do some initial work on a couple of large area mesh  
> networks in the Baltimore area.  I would like to use the network  
> cards made by Ubiquiti.  They have a range of cards that will soon  
> support everything from 5.2GHz to 900MHz.  The Ubiquiti cards use the  
> Atheros AR5004 (AR5213 and AR5112) chipset.  Do you know if the ath  
> driver, in your distribution, supports these chips?  I have two  
> machines setup with the Ubiquiti Super Range 5 card and neither one  
> is able to see it's wireless network.  All I get is:  "ath_start:  
> ignore data packet, state 1".
> 
> From what I've seen, the AR5004 has only recently been supported  
> under NetBSD and madwifi.  If the ath driver on cuwin version 0.6.0  
> doesn't support the AR5004 chipset, do you have a development  
> distribution that is new enough to have the new driver?

We are overdue for an 0.6.1 release.  I will aim to add support for the
AR5004 to that release.

Dave

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