D Link DWA-552 Extreme-N Wireless PCI Adapter no longer works.

tmpdmp · Dec 6, 2021

Decided to reinstall FreeBSD on an older system (AMD Phenom/GA-990FXA-UD3) with the DWA-552 PCI wifi card. I used this card years ago with FreeBSD and it worked but now when installing FreeBSD, it doesn't show up in network lists to connect to internet during BSDInstall. I checked the text while the system was installing from DVD and it says:

Ath0: Atheros 5416 mem {} irq 20 at device 6.0 on pci4
Ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3
device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6

Is this hardware too old now? Newer FreeBSD drivers not compatible with it anymore? This was done trying to install FreeBSD 13.0.

Andriy · Dec 6, 2021

If you can try some older releases (12.x, 11.x) that would help to understand where the regression happened.

Alain De Vos · Dec 6, 2021

Maybe this helps ,

ath(4)

www.freebsd.org

Does,

Code:

pciconf -lv | egrep -i "ath|552|dwa|amd|phenom|990"

returns something ?

tmpdmp · Dec 6, 2021

Alain De Vos said:
Maybe this helps ,

ath(4)

www.freebsd.org

Does,

Code:

pciconf -lv | egrep -i "ath|552|dwa|amd|phenom|990"

returns something ?

Returns:
Vendor = Advanced Micro Devices AMD
Vendor = Qualcomm Atheros

Alain De Vos · Dec 6, 2021

Next command shows if the kernel driver for the device is loaded,

Code:

lsmod | grep -i ath

tmpdmp · Dec 6, 2021

Alain De Vos said:
Next command shows if the kernel driver for the device is loaded,

Code:

lsmod | grep -i ath

Command not found..

eternal_noob · Dec 6, 2021

Try kldstat instead of lsmod.
Alain dreams of his Linux again.

Alain De Vos · Dec 6, 2021

You don't want to know my dreams but i trust you on this one.

tmpdmp · Dec 6, 2021

kldstat...

if_ath.ko
ath_rate.ko
ath_hal_ar9300.ko
ath_hal_ar5416.ko
ath_hal_ar5212.ko
ath_hal_ar5211.ko
ath_hal_ar5210.ko