I've an Atheros AR5424, which OpenBSD seems to detect correctly, but
does not really work.
The ath driver is used, and the man pages don't list this model as being
supported, but I though I might ask if there was some fix/etc.


# ifconfig ath0 chan
ath0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:1f:e2:a2:c5:4f
        priority: 4
        groups: wlan
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
        status: no network
        ieee80211: nwid ""
                chan  freq      properties
# ifconfig ath0 scan
ath0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:1f:e2:a2:c5:4f
        priority: 4
        groups: wlan
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
        status: no network
        ieee80211: nwid ""
<blue>ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 4294934528
#

In reference to the above blue error, the man pages say it should not
happen.  Again, the card is not listed as supported either.

I don't mind providing more feedback/testing patches/etc.
Cheers, and thanks.

dmesg:

OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #589: Mon Oct 18 16:29:17 MDT 2010
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 2134712320 (2035MB)
avail mem = 2064023552 (1968MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe2c30 (25 entries)
bios0: vendor Hewlett-Packard version "F.33" date 04/29/2008
bios0: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Presario C700 Notebook PC
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC HPET MCFG ASF! SLIC BOOT SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices SLPB(S4) P32_(S4) EXP1(S4) EXP2(S4) EXP3(S4)
EXP4(S4) EXP5(S4) EXP6(S4)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz, 1729.28 ...
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS
H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX1
work.

FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS
H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX1

I doesn't work.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126420221716157&w=2

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Ok, thanks, I somehow failed to google this earlier.  It's a shame I'm
far from being skilled enough to do anything about it.  :-(


-- 
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

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I also had that chipset on an acer aspire one....
Just gor a mini pcie card to substitute it ;))))



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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

Check the archives of tech@ (and misc@ for that matter). The AR5424
issue has been known and some have been working on a driver. However,
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS
H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX1
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS
H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX1

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