The following reply was made to PR kern/25928; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Shupak <paul@Plectere.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: paul@Plectere.com
Subject: Re: kern/25928 (ath driver fails with "unable to collect channel list from hal")
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:02:21 -0700 (PDT)

 	The symtoms are different, but the driver/HAL still fail.  More
 recent HALs assign part of the 4.9GHz band to the regulatory domain 0x18.
 The correct frquencies are UNI-II and UNI-III minus channel 50 (see the
 FCC notes for this - the sidebands are out-of-spec on channel 50;  the
 windows driver does *not* enforce this restriction).  The UNI-I band does
 not allow a device to have removable antenna(s) (i.e. channels 36-48).
 
 	Unless Atheros chooses to put in a fix for D-Link cards, the only
 "real" fix is reprogramming the EEPROM (which then works very well, but
 allows operation on illegal frequencies);  Possibly a note could/should
 be added to the man page simply saying that many D-Link cards are not
 compatible with "ath" and the bug then closed.
 
 	Paul Shupak