I am running a Wistron DCMA81 mini PCI WLAN card in the above ALIX board. This mini PCI WLAN card uses an Atheros AR 5414 chipset and according to the FreeBSD HW notes this chipset should be supported.
Console boot message shows that the board is recognized:
PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
640 KB Base Memory
130048 KB Extended Memory
01F0 Master 848A TOSHIBA THNCF128MMG
Phys C/H/S 978/8/32 Log C/H/S 978/8/32
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 640kB/130048kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@mb63.neon1.net, Sat Aug 23 21:46:54 CEST 2008)
/kernel text=0x32c5bc data=0x3c714+0x24754 syms=[0x4+0x448b0+0x4+0x5734d]
real memory = 134217728 (128 MB)
avail memory = 109318144 (104 MB)
pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
wlan: mac acl policy registered
K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
cpu0 on motherboard
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0 <--- *
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:6b:2e:1c:6a
ath0: mac 10.5 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> port 0x6000-0x6007,0x6100-0x61ff,0x6200-0x623f,0x9d00-0x9d7f,0x9c00-0x9c3f at device
15.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <AMD CS5536 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xff00-0xff0f at device 15
.2 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
System comes up and runs just fine except....
If i start the Web GUI i cannot see any WLAN interfaces :-(
Is there any additional config task that has to be done to bring this WLAN mini PCI card to work in M0n0wall ?
Topic: mini PCI WLAN in ALIX 2C1