Subject: kern/30162: wi driver does not support all DWL-520 cards
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/07/2005 08:55:00
>Number: 30162
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: wi driver does not support all DWL-520 cards
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat May 07 08:55:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Pavel Cahyna
>Release: NetBSD 2.0_BETA i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 2.0_BETA (GENERIC_DIAGNOSTIC s patchem D. Reeda - PR#26839) #4: Wed Oct 6 10:13:10 CEST 2004
pavel@pc.martani.n2.repy.czf:/mnt/obj/kompilace/jadra/compile/GENERIC_DIAGNOSTIC
>Description:
related to kern/30141, the wi(4) manpage lists D-Link DWL-520 as
a supported card, but the
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz page says that it has
the Realtek chipset, only revisions A1,A2,B1,B2 are Prism. So the manual
should say which revisions are supported, because it could serve as a
shopping guide and buying an unsupported card is an expensive mistake. The
manual should also point at the atw(4) man page, because this one mentions
support for the Rev. C1 (using ADMtek chipset).
suggested entry:
D-Link DWL-520 11Mbps PCI Card, Revs. A1,A2,B1,B2
(for Rev. C1 see atw(4))
Nota Bene: I don't have and never had such card, I get this information from
the docs. This means that I don't actually know if all of the A1,A2,B1,B2
revisions are supported, I infer it only from the fact that they have a
supported chipset - somebody should check this.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix: