Hi,
I have a Macbook 2,1 (late 2006) with an Atheros wireless card. I've been hunting and hunting to find a definitive answer regarding whether or not it is supported. In Linux, it was supported by the ath9k driver.
From what I can gather from my research, I have an AR5418 wireless card based on the AR5008E chipset (http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Chipsets). Linux, if I recall correctly, saw it as an AR5416 card, but it worked. Either way, they are both based on the 5008* chipset and not the 5005VL that is not supported.
The hardware notes (for 7.0-Release)state:
This site (http://goddess-gate.com/dc2/index.php/post/251) states that my macbook has the 5008 chipset (as I thought), but says:
The FreeBSD wiki lists nothing about wireless.
When I boot, however, I get no recognition of anything Atheros related. 'dmesg|grep atheros' returns nada. ifconfig shows only msk0 (along with the usual lo0 etc.) which is my ethernet (wired) connection which does work under FBSD 7.0.
Could someone tell me why the card might not be recognized? This was the only other post in these forums I could find that might have any relevance: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=382&highlight=atheros. It states that the ath_hal does not support PCIe - not sure what that means. Could that be the case here?
Anyway, lots of ramblings. The Generic kernel has ath4 built-in, so I doubt it's a module not being loaded issue. I'm EXTREMELY new to FreeBSD, so please forgive me if I did not post something obvious. I could give you my whole dmesg, or ifconfig output if that would be helpful, but I figured for now stating that dmesg has no atheros card recognized and that ifconfig lists no ath* interface would be enough.
Thanks for any help and/or suggestions.
-John
I have a Macbook 2,1 (late 2006) with an Atheros wireless card. I've been hunting and hunting to find a definitive answer regarding whether or not it is supported. In Linux, it was supported by the ath9k driver.
From what I can gather from my research, I have an AR5418 wireless card based on the AR5008E chipset (http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Chipsets). Linux, if I recall correctly, saw it as an AR5416 card, but it worked. Either way, they are both based on the 5008* chipset and not the 5005VL that is not supported.
The hardware notes (for 7.0-Release)state:
[i386,pc98,amd64,sparc64] The ath(4) driver supports all Atheros Cardbus or PCI cards, except those that are based on the AR5005VL chipset. A list of cards that are supported can be found at http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp.
This site (http://goddess-gate.com/dc2/index.php/post/251) states that my macbook has the 5008 chipset (as I thought), but says:
So, are the hardware notes correct or this referenced site?On a Core 2 Duo MacBook, it's an Atheros AR5008 chipset which lacks a device driver. So you can't use it.
The FreeBSD wiki lists nothing about wireless.
When I boot, however, I get no recognition of anything Atheros related. 'dmesg|grep atheros' returns nada. ifconfig shows only msk0 (along with the usual lo0 etc.) which is my ethernet (wired) connection which does work under FBSD 7.0.
Could someone tell me why the card might not be recognized? This was the only other post in these forums I could find that might have any relevance: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=382&highlight=atheros. It states that the ath_hal does not support PCIe - not sure what that means. Could that be the case here?
Anyway, lots of ramblings. The Generic kernel has ath4 built-in, so I doubt it's a module not being loaded issue. I'm EXTREMELY new to FreeBSD, so please forgive me if I did not post something obvious. I could give you my whole dmesg, or ifconfig output if that would be helpful, but I figured for now stating that dmesg has no atheros card recognized and that ifconfig lists no ath* interface would be enough.
Thanks for any help and/or suggestions.
-John