<![CDATA[Atheros issues in recent snapshot.]]>I got a new wireless card for testing in my test Alix- went with a 5006 series instead of the usual fifth-gen 5212. It was cheap. Anyway, it seems to work under 1.2.1, but shows up as a 5212. (The card should be a 5413) 1.3 now has a more recent HAL, which correctly IDs the card, but then gets a HAL ABI mismatch.

1.3 pfSense-20080908-1051.img
ath_hal: 0.10.5.6 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
ath0: <atheros 5413="">mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: HAL ABI mismatch detected (HAL:0x8052700 != driver:0x6102600)
device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6

Same hardware on 1.2.1 pfSense-20080818-0000.img
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath0: <atheros 5212="">mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:02:6f:00:11:22
ath0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3

EDIT: Tested with a 2413, and it gets the same error.</atheros></atheros>

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/10767/atheros-issues-in-recent-snapshotRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 19:13:12 GMTMon, 08 Sep 2008 18:06:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Atheros issues in recent snapshot. on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:42:16 GMT]]>Can you please send me the config.xml part where your wireless parameters are saved so i can take a look at it.
It happens only with certain parameters i cannot replicate.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/181332https://forum.netgate.com/post/181332Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:42:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Atheros issues in recent snapshot. on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:37:16 GMT]]>card is detected in the latest snapshot (thanks!!), but when i submit the configuration for the interface, it spits back a 401 Unauthorized and completely locks up the web GUI, i have to restart the box to get it to work again.

system.log has the following to say:

Sep  9 19:30:03 router php: /interfaces.php: XML error: XML_ERR_NAME_REQUIRED at line 240
]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/181311https://forum.netgate.com/post/181311Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:37:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Atheros issues in recent snapshot. on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:20:17 GMT]]>same here:

Sep  8 22:01:30 router kernel: ath0: <atheros 5212=""> mem 0xfeaf0000-0xfeafffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci2
Sep  8 22:01:30 router kernel: ath0: [ITHREAD]
Sep  8 22:01:30 router kernel: ath0: HAL ABI mismatch detected (HAL:0x8052700 != driver:0x6102600)
Sep  8 22:01:30 router kernel: device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6</atheros>

worked in 1.2.1.

i'm running the latest build (sep8 21:22:02 EDT)

# uname -a
FreeBSD router.e00.lan 7.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Sep  8 20:27:38 EDT 2008     sullrich@builder7.bgn.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense.7  i386
]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/181235https://forum.netgate.com/post/181235Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:20:17 GMT