Subject: Re: latest ath/net80211 from freebsd
To: Petar Bogdanovic <p+netbsd@2005.smokva.net>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/10/2005 11:43:29
In message <42A99412.1090900@2005.smokva.net>,
Petar Bogdanovic writes:
>Hi,
>
>Jonathan Stone wrote:
>> I used two D-Link cards in two laptops for SACK testing. I'm pretty
>> sure one was the a/b/g variant and one was b/g.  A Windows user now
>> has the b/g version. When I looked for Windows drivers, I saw
>> references to three different hardware versions, with different
>> vendor-supplied drivers for each.
>
>D-Link used another Chipset in the early Revisions of the DWL-G520. See 
>man ath:
>
>    >> Revision A1 of the D-LINK DWL-G520 and DWL-G650 are
>    >> based on an Intersil PrismGT chip and are not supported
>    >> by this driver.

Yes, but the D-Link doc I saw said there were _three_ hardware
versisons, A1, B, and C( or A1, A2 and B?) with different Windows
drivers for each.


>> Oh... do you have the tuples for your card handy?
>
>'Tuples'? I know 'tuples' from my math-lessons.. :)
>
>What do you mean by tuples?

PCMCIA-style CIS tuples. Or PCI-style vendor/device/rev.
"dmesg or other output detailing hardware version",