D-Link DWl-AG50/660

[Victor Dorneanu <victor%dornea.nu@localhost>]

Hi there!

According to this site
(http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Compatibility/D-Link) both cards have
the Atheros AR5212 chipset inside:
1) http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Compatibility/D-Link#DWL-AG650
2) http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Compatibility/D-Link#DWL-AG660

Atm I use following cards:
1) Intel 4965 AGN Mini PCI Express card (iwn0)
2) D-Link DWL-AG650/660 cardbus card (ath0)

Wenn I plug in the cardbus card I get:
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ath0 at cardbus0 function 0
ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: mac 10.5 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
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The card is recognised by the system (NetBSD 5.0.1/Amd64)! Usually I use
airodump-ng for monitoring traffic and finding Access Points. When I run
"airodump-ng iwn0" I get a huge list of available hosts/APs.
"airodump-ng ath0" however shows only a few APs. Some APs (which got
recognised by iwn0) are not shown in the list.

Are there any known problems/issues related to this observation? Does
somebody use those cards (see subject)?

Thank you for your help.

-- 
Victor Dorneanu