In article <20050210031337.GK14667@dublet.org>,
Wouter Klouwen  <dublet@dublet.org> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I recently purchased a NetGear WiFi card for one of my laptops which
>currently had no WiFi (Compaq Armada E500). Upon plugging in the card, it
>gets detected and the following is spit out:
>
>ath0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0
>ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3
>
>however, plugging it into my IBM ThinkPad R51 gives me:
>
>ath0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0
>ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6
>ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
>36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>
>The Armada runs a stock 2.0 install, but with a 2.99.15 kernel (naughty, I
>know), and the ThinkPad runs a 2.0 install, but with a 2.99.14 kernel
>(again, very naughty).
>
>What is HAL status 3, and how do I get it to work on my Armada?
>
>Any additional information needed for debugging wil gladly be provided.
>
>Regards,
>	Wouter Klouwen
>
>Note: The NetGear is a WG511TFS

Probably needs a newer hal. David Young who maintains the driver said
he will import it soon from FreeBSD. You can try adding it yourself...

christos